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Great article – pity too many people don’t
read the excellence of many editorials.
Having seen several very negative
comments in the press of late, I fear that
many complainants are those who are neither
proud or want to commit to helping positive
change – but prefer to moan.
Good magazine – I love your climbing
features. – Tony Allan, Hout Bay
Thank you for the Full Circle magazine
editorial in the August issue and I heartily
endorse your sentiments – though I am
English-born. We live in such a beautiful
country, you produce an excellent magazine
– why cannot our TV programmes also
exploit the beauty and wonders of our very
diversified countryside, so that the Rainbow
Nation may learn of the riches right at their
doorstep and aspire to nurture and care for their
country? Why do we not have more 50/50,
Shoreline programmes? Why do we have so much
nonsense which children have to watch? Any
suggestions?
– Sincerely, Paddy McPherson
Honestly I salute you and your team for an incredible
magazine all-round and for your article on being a
proud African, especially because it is my experience
too. I often get the feeling that people are thinking that I
am not in total control of my faculties because I greet
people in the bush, on trains, wherever, with a smile or
a nod, or regularly I will even actually talk to people that
are total strangers – as a rule though – our people (all
of them) are fantastic as soon as they are at ease.
Of course, the element of personal security and a
whole range of other issues must arise in the minds of
my targets of happy-communication, I look a bit rough
but maybe that’s why I have no problem making first
contact – because I don’t ever feel vulnerable.
Albert Einstein saw so much more than the
average person of his time ... it must surely have
given him a lot of joy. As the magnificent world
around us here on the Peninsula and the rest of our
Land and its people give ordinary people like me a
similar joy in my heart which is my own and Africa’s.
– Philippe, Glencairn
LETTERS
WAKEFORDS WINNER
The Winner of the Wakefords Furnishers LG
DV380P DVD player offered in the July issue
of Full Circle is Rebecca Marshall of
Noordhoek.
INNER CIRCLE
The Winner of this month’s Inner Circle Members’
poster is Peter Fewell of Simon’s Town.
Final Month Galley 25th
Birthday Special
The Galley Restaurant’s 25th Birthday celebration
special ends at the end of September.
If you still have the R25 meal voucher distributed
with Full Circle in June, make a plan to get into The
Galley as soon as you can to enjoy a meal on family-
friendly Fish Hoek Beach!
MUSIC AT ST FRANCIS, SIMON’S TOWN
On Saturday 12 September, the Cape
Consort (a sort of offshoot of Musica Antiqua)
consisting of instruments from the
Renaissance and Baroque period (lutes,
virginals and viol da gambas), will give a
coffee concert at St Francis Church
commencing at 10.30am. Being the
anniversary year for both Purcell and Handel
the group will play a number of works by
these great Baroque composers. In addition,
Dr Richard Oxtoby will talk about the history
of the instruments. Coffee and biscuits are
included in the admission price of R50.
Tickets will only be available at the door.
The September lunchtime organ recital will
be given by Noel-Jean Kriel on Wednesday 30
September 2009 at 1.10pm and will last about
40 minutes. Coffee and cooldrinks will be
served. Bring sandwiches. Retiring collection.
The liturgical Season of Creation continues
through September with services on Sundays at
9.30am (9am on 6 September) concluding on St
Francis Day, Sunday 4 October at 9am. These
services will include hymns, songs, psalms and
anthems appropriate to the Creation theme.
For further information on these events please
contact Nick Hodson, 021 786 5931 or Juliet
Bass, 021 786 2362.
SPRING FAIR
Imhoff Waldorf School proudly presents the
Spring Fair on 5 September at the Imhoff
Farm Stall. Activities start at 10am and
include zip-zap circus (R30), craft stall, food
and fun for all the family. Contact Rebecca
on 072 259 6815.
This is a rare picture, in that
it is taken from a hang-glider
on the South Peninsula. It is
a wing-mounted shot which
is rare as it is quite tricky to
do.
- Adam West, Newlands
September 2009 Vol6 No9
