At last a picture of the real thing. Your editor ventured into Hout Bay with community service genius and Rotarian past president Mick Feuilherade and obtained an "action shot" of John working his round clearing up waste and litter in our village. Blow up by clicking
Breakdown of parts from the prototype manual
Mick tells us that he has hopes for a mark two litter machine but this rather depends on selling the fourth advertising space which faces his flybutton in above pic.
This is worth a Rotary Africa story and will be attended to when time allows. Meanwhile, the story is being flashed to to news stations around the world to cheer up what could have been an otherwise dull weekend for breaking news other than the awful things happening in Haiti.
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Zappa Napa Neville
Neville and Joyce Morris cheered us up last weekend by telling us that we in SA are 8th in the world on wine-making but stopped short of saying we were the best. He gave a great talk on wine making in the Napa Valley, north east San Fran. Napa is the home of Opus One (about US$1,000 a bottle)..... a charming but somehat fruity little morsel from his area where he and Joyce are ensconced in a retirment home that looks one short of Sun City.
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メヂカル - ホープ の支えに誠に心から感謝を表現します。
We had a nice note from our good friend a Rotary Club of Tokyo ( who might be the chairman of Daimler Benz/Mercedes in Japan but it is difficult to establish these things from such humble, generous and polite people) and he had the following to say:
Dear Patrick,
We have been away over the New Years and could not see your mail until yesterday. Thank you so much for your kind message and also for your words of appreciation to Tokyo Rotary Club. I am very happy to learn that Operation Medical Hope has achieved an important opening of the Main Road Clinic last November. I will certainly pass your message and website to my colleagues at Tokyo Rotary Club and discuss how best we can communicate this news to our members.
Once again thank you very much for your delightful news at the beginning of the year.
Best regards,
Keisuke Egashira
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Interesting to get an e-mail addressed to our website from Klamath Basin Sunrise Rotary Club in Oregon USA saying that they had read about where Colin Sutherland was now staying in France in last week's story "A summer's morning in Burgundy" in Bay Breezes on our webpage and the writer wanted to get hold him. Good heavens - the power of the Internet.
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ARGUS CYCLE TOUR 2010
This year is special as it will be the 25th year that Hout Bay Rotary has marshalled the Argus, so lets be positive and make the day good fun. We appear to have some budding actors who enjoy fancy dress – why not get dressed up for the Argus Day and give everyone something to smile about.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Best wshes and congratulations to all Hout Bay Rotarians. Your editor could find no anniversaries, weddings, birthdays for the current week in his version of the Orange Book. Still, all of you, have a great week
Congratulations to the South African Proteas Cricket Team. A job well done (finally)
Good advice for the New Year
The correct way to treat a good bottle of wine is to open it to allow it to breathe............
However.......... if it doesn't look as if its breathing, then the best thing to do is give it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
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