Did you know that there is such a thing as a Veterinary Dentist?  Yes, these hapless souls have made a rather lucrative career out of tending to the oral hygiene of your pet hound.  So, not only do we enslave what was once a fully functional wild pack animal and reduce it to beggar-status, but [...]

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Franschhoek always scares me a bit.  It usually means I’m going to eat well…but be much poorer afterwards.  This time was different.  Yes, it WAS expensive, but someone else suffered the post-bill indigestion!
It was Mother’s Day and Stoan invited his mother and me to lunch at CAFE ALLEE BLEUE  just outside Franschhoek.  The drive [...]

Ok, so it’s all over and the ANC have won the 2009 election, albeit with slightly less than a two-thirds majority (65.90% in fact).  Pretty soon our new president will be inaugurated at a lavish party, and the who’s-who of the world’s political leaders are invited.  On May 9th Jacob Zuma will be sworn in [...]