It is safe to say there is a definate brrrrrrrr in the air :)
Lots happening to keep creative indoors as well as enjoy the warm, winter sunshine outdoors!
Enjoy the rest of beautiful July!
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Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste.
Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics?
Sign up here https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
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Some fun July trivia....................
Did you know that on the 5th of July 1946 , the bikini was showcased for the first time?
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Louis Reard, an engineer who had taken over his mother’s lingerie business in 1940, unveiled the two-piece swimsuit at a popular Parisian swimming spot, Piscine Molitor, on July 5, 1946. He had wanted to outdo Jacques Heim, who two months earlier had launched the Atome, the “world’s smallest bathing suit”.
Reard’s swimsuit, named the bikini after Bikini Atolll, the site where the US had tested the atomic bomb, was in direct competition to Heim’s Atome. Reard boasted his bikini was “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.” It would soon change the nature of female swimwear.
It was so daring that he found it hard to convince models to wear it at the unveiling, instead hiring Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris.
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ANNOUNCING THE VERY 1 ST CLUNY ANIMAL TRUST SWEEPSTAKES
Please consider purchasing a ticket or tickets:)
Did you know that the National Lottery Commission no longer gives ANY FUNDING to animal welfare charities like the Cluny Animal Trust, so we decided to make our own luck and we have launched our very own Sweepstakes!
So here is how it works…between 1 May 2019 and 31 July 2019 we only have 1000 tickets up for sale. Each ticket costs R100 and 75% of the funds raised will go to the Cluny Animal Trust and 25% of the funds raised will go to a single prize winner!
That means if we sell all 1000 tickets someone (maybe you) can win up to R25,000! Imagine what you could do with a cool R25k in your bank account.
If you would like to purchase a tickets/s please contact Imogen Tarita via email – imogen@clunyanimaltrust.co.za.
A few Ts & Cs apply! |
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Cluny Animal Trust are looking for sponsors for doggie kennels in the Clarens and Fouriesburg areas. Please help support this amazing team who do so much for the animals in the community and surrounds.
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2 Dates · Jul 20 - Jul 21
AdventureWalk Trail Warrior #2 - Kiara (Clarens)
Kiara Lodge
Join us on an amazing walk at Kiara Lodge (10km from Clarens) for 10km walk on the Saturday and a 5km walk on the Sunday. This event will run separate to the Trail Warrior #2 Stage Run. The 10km walk on Saturday is very technical and is therefore not open to under 18yrs or over 60yrs walkers. The 5km walk on Sunday will be walk that can be enjoyed by young and old. Under 18yrs and over 60yrs can therefore join in on the 5km walk on Sunday at no charge. This is however not applicable to the Stage Run event. Registration for the event will be on 19 July 2019 between 18h00 and 20h00 at the restaurant.
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Stamperia Scrapbook Event - Clarens 2019
12th to 14th July 2019 Mont D' Or
Come join us for a VERY special winter retreat. We are hosting a surprise international teacher and you are in for a REAL treat. The kits are going to be packed with TONS of free goodies, new products and fantastic new techniques. There will be a fully stocked shop, brand new kit stall and a few surprises you will absolutely LOVE!
Bookings are open, and just like the 2018 event, it should be filling up really fast. We have some really affordable payment plans available, and with more than a year to pay it off, you can't afford to miss this one.
For more information, WA me on 076 865 6165 or email on tietz.karen@gmail.com.
Book fast to avoid disappointment.
See you there!
Cost: R5900
Payment Option 1: Once off R5723 (including 3% discount)
Payment Option 2: R2000 Deposit & 10 installments of R390
Payment Option 3: Groups of 4 or more - R2000 deposit with 10 installments of R370.
Day visitors: R2000 deposit with 10 installments of R290 (Includes goody bags, extras and meals)
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At Gallagher Estate - The World Of Cats And Dogs Expo
18th July 2019
Please come and meet the Cluny Animal Trust team (and we can't forget Daisy - our mobile operating theatre who is coming along as well). This is an amazing fun and family filled expo and a must for every animal lover!
We will be in Hall 5 - Stand 79 and we can't wait to meet you!
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Southern Africa’s premier snowboard and ski festival, Ultimate Ears Winter Whip, is back for its sixth year. We’re ready to host the sports’ top athletes at Afriski Mountain Resort from 25 – 28 July 2019.
Enjoy a fun-filled four days of snow-sports action and entertainment, with the main slopestyle competition taking place on Saturday 27 July.
The Winter Whip snowboard and ski competition runs as a jam format, slopestyle contest, which has received great feedback from the competitors. The format is geared towards excitement for the crowds watching from the Afriski slopes, the Cooler Box après-ski area or Gondola Cafe.
Engaging and fun activations, mini events and areas have been planned by the event’s official partners and will be something to look out for throughout the festival.
Red Bull will be on hand, once again, to provide music and a great atmosphere on the slopes. In addition, some of South Africa’s most established and loved bands/DJs will be performing at this year’s after party on the night of the event at the Gondola Café at Afriski. Zappa will also be involved in this year’s entertainment, creating good vibes at the Cooler Box après-ski area and Gondola Café throughout the weekend, as well as “party in the snow” and the after party.
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BOOK RECOMMENDATION - pop into Bibliophile for your copy.
The Year of Facing Fire – a memoir, by Helena Kriel (MF Books Joburg/Jacana)
A moving memoir of joy, pain and boundless love
Review: Vivien Horler
Helena Kriel gets about. When this memoir begins she has been commissioned to write the screenplay of a 1996 Hollywood film called Kama Sutra, and goes to India to do research.
Many years later she is the founder of Baby Rhino Rescue, an organisation with two sanctuaries that is trying to save rhinos from extinction. She divides her time between Hollywood and South Africa, “is happiest when in the middle of nowhere with just a rhino or hippo for company”, and according to the cover blurb, “facilitates adventures through India”.
None of which is the focus of this memoir – the focus of this memoir is love.
Kriel comes from an atypical, non-observant Joburg Jewish family. Her father, Dr Kriel, smoked three packs of Camels a day and died of lung cancer. Her mother is a writer, beautiful and tough; her sister lives in a temple in India with her SA-born Indian husband; one brother, the beautiful Evan, 29, is gay, had something of a dissolute youth in clubs but is now a reformed character who is studying with a rabbi; and her second brother dives with sharks in Mozambique.
At the beginning of this memoir Evan is in hospital with scepticaemia, and is expected to die at any moment. In addition, Kriel discovers for the first time Evan is HIV positive – this is before AZT – a fact that has been deliberately kept from her and her younger siblings so they could live their lives “undisturbed”.
Kriel prays, then sits down next to her unconscious brother’s hospital bed, takes his hand and starts talking to him. “We’re on a tropical beach. It is paradise here. The sea is calm and turquoise…there are dolphins around… fireflies.”
Evan’s eyes are rolled back in his head, but as she speaks his brown irises slide back into view. Kriel and her mother go home, and early the next morning the hospital rings. Evan is sitting up in bed – it is a miracle.
Later he describes how an angel told him about being on a beach with dolphins and fireflies. He came back.
And so begins the struggle to keep Evan alive. He is as weak as a kitten, and every morning Kriel goes into his room early to make sure he has made it through the night.
As he gets stronger, life starts to go back to normal. Kriel goes off to India, her sister returns to South Africa with her husband and toddler son, the younger brother comes home from Mozambique.
Kriel speaks to wise people in India who preach the value of surrender, to love, to sex – it’s the Kama Sutra, remember – and to death.
Evan is strong enough to go back to teaching and writes long and enriching letters to Kriel in India. Then Kriel gets a message to call home – this is before cellphones – and the news is not good. Kriel flies home.
And so follows a year of highs and lows. We meet friends of the family, Evan’s partner Dietmar, a German mechanic of whom Evan’s mother does not approve, the dangerous fruit-and-veg man who Kriel goes out with a few times and practises a touch of S&M. She also meets Adam, a friend of Evan’s to whom she is drawn.
Evan thought his sister was an angel; she certainly writes like one. She describes a year of joy and pain in the most lyrical of language. The garden of the family home is a source of happiness and solace. Joburg is a character in this memoir – the beggars, the prostitutes, the Highveld storms.
No family can go through what the Kriels go through and emerge the same. Many times their lives are hellish, and yet they reach out, bond with one another, and learn how to surrender.
This is a moving story of family, strength and boundless love.
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Come celebrate 10 years of SA's finest craft brews with us on the 21st & 22nd of February 2020.
Book your accommodation now, ticket sales will open on the 3rd of September 2019.
See you in craft beer country...
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Mushroom Barley Soup
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
1 cup barley
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium yellow onions, diced
salt and black pepper
1 large carrot, diced
2 celery stalks, diced
20 ounces button mushrooms, sliced
5 cups vegetable stock
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves (about 8 sprigs)
sliced sourdough or other country bread, toasted (optional)
How to Make It
Step 1
In a medium-size pan, bring the barley and 4 cups of water to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender, 30 to 35 minutes.
Step 2
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large pot over medium-low heat. Add the onions, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Cover and cook until the onions have softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
Step 3
Add the carrot and celery and cook, covered, for 6 minutes more.
Step 4
Add the mushrooms, increase heat to medium-high, and cook, covered, until they release their juices, about 4 minutes.
Step 5
Add the stock, bay leaves, and thyme and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
Step 6
Stir in the cooked barley; remove and discard the bay leaves. If desired, season with additional salt and pepper and serve with the sourdough toast.
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Can you Quizz or Riddle?
Q: A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
Answer to last months Quizz: Q - I start in July and end in November. What's my name? Can you decipher?
Answer - Jason :)
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