When reading the letter page in the local newspaper, often I get to thinking about certain issues that make most decent people's blood boil. Poaching of Rhino's is one of them. When you have encountered these magnificent animals in the wild, only cowards could kill them.

Then when I find I cannot sleep all these ideas and thoughts come to mind. How to make Rhino horn sustainable and deal with poachers all in one go. Well there are things Judge Dennis Davis and his colleagues should think about about.

Poachers - actually all criminals alike - especially child molesters and rapists - send them all for an "orchidectomy" and have them go to First floor New Somerset Hospital, where they killed my father, the word will get out that you never come out of that ward alive, so the numbers of criminal will decline overnight.

Then Angels tap me on the shoulder and tell me that these dark thoughts make me almost as bad as the criminal itself and they then give me ideas for sustainable rhino horn, but no ideas of dealing with the criminals, so here is the advise for the horns, but await the ideas still for the criminals and poachers. I still feel that what I have said above is still good, in a bad way. Or if you have watched the movie - Hunted - do that to all these criminals, but do not pay them!! The person who, in The Argus last week wrote, that all criminals should go into old age homes and all elderly should go to prison - these thoughts come from that same mind set - we have had enough - someone needs to do something - come on Judge Dennis Davis!!

The horn replacement - overwhelming the market with this, that will make it impossible for "them" to know the difference, will make sure that my great, great grandchildren will still see rhino's when they grow up, - it is also a money making spinner for the poor - everyone save all your finger and toe nail cuttings, keep them until you have 500g, then sell it to a entrepreneur. Every hairdresser, instead of throwing away all that hair you cut daily, put it special bins and sell that to these same entrepreneurs and they process these two items together - well why not - all that the Rhino horn is, is compressed hair - keratin - so the processing of hair and nails and you will have a good sustainable product of equivalent "stuff". Flood the market and save the Rhino!! Who agrees with me??

NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2011 SHORT & SWEET

Hello from Cape Town the most beautiful city in the world, where we are having lovely summer weather, windy at times, but that is expected when the Cape Doctor blows at this time of the year, with temperatures ranging from high 20's - high 30's and into the interior of the Western Cape into the mid 40's. Yes that is C not F.

We are only winter rainfall area in country, so while the wind blows here in Cape Town at gale force, the rest of the country are feeling like webbed feet are growing, as it is raining and raining and yes raining for 2 months already, with 27 municipalities declared disaster areas, over 7 of our 9 provinces.

So what's new, it is flooding in OZ, Sri Lanka, Philippines and mud slides due to excessive rain in Brazil. + Snow mostly elsewhere ....

This then makes Cape Town and ideal venue to visit at this time of the year. Scenic, diverse, multi-cultural, excellent weather, I could go on and on with these beautiful adjectives, but jokes aside, many places have discounted their accommodation - hugely - and so our prices have fallen as well.

This will not last, so take the opportunity to get these bargains now. These lowered prices are valid until end March 2011. "Negotiation" is the watch word these days.

So while we enjoy the long summer days, with perfect sunsets and long evenings, having that sundowner with Table Mountain as a backdrop, think about it, YOU TOO could be enjoying that long cool Telquila Sunrise and sunset in Cape Town.

We are waiting ... to entertain you!