Month: October 2013

Is Your Lifestyle Making You Sick?

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Research has shown that not everybody has the same metabolism.  Almost 45% of people struggling with their weight were born with this genetic predisposition. Therefore, people can be divided into 2 groups when it comes to the way your metabolism reacts to food.  The onset of the symptoms is slow and progressive and may be expedited by a number of life events or triggers including stress, weight gain, illness and hormonal changes.  It is a switch that has always been there, just waiting to be turned on at some or other time.   This has nothing to do with willpower!  Your body simply responds differently.

If you have this different Metabolism, which no diet has worked for in the past, you were born with a different blueprint for processing food.  You might not have had a problem keeping the weight off, but at some point in the past everything changed.  At some stage you noticed symptoms like progressive weight gain around the middle, fatigue, carb cravings, sleeplessness, mild depression, anxiety.  If not attended to these symptoms lead to health issues involving cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure.

To effectively treat a disease, you have to start at the root of the problem.  Your problem is your body’s disability to effectively metabolize carbohydrates.  Therefore, by applying specific methods regarding your diet, in conjunction with exercise, this problem can easily be corrected, relieving you of unwanted symptoms and weight.

Triggers that might be responsible for the onset of your different metabolism:

Hormonal Changes:    Puberty, Pregnancies, Menopause
Stress: Life

Kos vir die Siel – Drome

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Hoekom bly jou drome jou ontwyk?

Hoekom bereik party mense net nooit hulle drome nie?
Onthou jy jou drome?
Die skildery van Tafelberg wat jy nog wou gemaak het
·  Plekke wat jy nog wou besoek het

·  Die boek wat jy wou skryf
·   Die rugsaktoer deur Europa

Wat het geword van jou idees en jou drome?

Wat is droom werd?

Wat is ‘n idee werd?

Op sy eie is ‘n droom of idee eintlik niks werd nie.

· ‘n Gholfstok op sy eie beteken niks. Maar sit die gholfstok in Ernie Els se hande en dit is ‘n ander storie.

· ‘n Mikrofoon alleen is maar net ‘n mikrofoon. Maar sit Neil Diamond agter daardie mikrofoon en duisende mense word betower.

·  Wat is sleutelbord en rekenaar nou eintlik. Maar sit Deon Meyer agter daardie rekenaar en jy kry die beste in spanningsverhale.

Daarom jou idee is nie veel werd op sy eie nie. Dit is eers wanneer dit in jou hande is en jy daadwerklik iets daarmee doen, dat jou idee en droom krag en energie kry. Dis eers wanneer jy jou idee in aksie omskep wat sukses bereik word.

Wat keer mense om voluit vir hulle idee / drome te gaan? Hier is ‘n paar faktore:

· Veilig – mense verkies hul gemaksone
·          Vrees – bang vir mislukking
·          Luiheid
·          Nie duidelike doelwitte nie
·          Breek nie die droom in kleiner doelwitte op nie
·          Gebrek aan deursettingsvermoë
·          Jy bly aanhoudend uitstel

Wat is die gevolge daarvan as jy jou drome laat gaan?
·          Minderwaardigheid  – jy sien wat ander bereik het
·          Selfverwyt – “AS EK MAAR NET”
·          Depressie – neerslagtigheid

Het die oorgang na verskillende fases iets te doen met ‘n mens se drome?

·          Oorgang van adolessensie na jong volwassenheid – hier word jy nou met ander werklikhede gekonfronteer. Studies, eerste blyplek, eerste werk, moontlike verlowing en huwelik, jou eie kinders.

· Volwassenheid na middeljare – nuwe werklikhede. Jy moet byvoorbeeld dink aan jou aftrede, jou kinders se studies, jou bevordering in die werk.

·  Middeljare na oud word – wat gebeur met jou drome wanneer jy die finale fase van jou lewe betree? Wanneer jy besef dit wat jou jeugdrome was, nooit gerealiseer het nie?

· Dan is ook LEWENSVERANDERENDE gebeure – soos ‘n motorongeluk, die dood van jou kind, ernstige siekte, jy verloor jou werk, jy wen die lotto, jy maak ‘n groot deurbraak. Dit het ‘n groot impak op jou drome en jou idees.

·  Daar kom ‘n tyd om ou drome te laat gaan en plek te maak vir nuwe drome

Hoe kan jy jou drome bereik? Watter beginsels is belangrik?

·  Jou droom moet gerugsteun word deur aksie. Sonder aksie beteken jou drome niks. Neem klein stappe en jy sal sien elke klein stap lei tot ‘n volgende stap en uiteindelik tot die verwesenliking van jou droom.

·  Kies ‘n dinamiese en positiewe houding. Moenie jou dae vul met negatiewe gedagtes nie. Wees ernegiek, wees buigsaam, wees in beheer. Doen die regte keuses vir ‘n positiewe gesindheid.

·  Twee belangrik kwaliteite: deursettingsvermoë en geduld. Sukses is nie sommer oornag nie. Dit verg van jou deursettingsvermoë en baie geduld. Mount Everest word nie in ‘n dag geklim nie. Dit neem lank (soms jare) om die voorbereiding en beplanning te doen om net die klimtog moontlik te maak en dan begin die eintlike klim eers.

Wanneer ‘n mens nou ‘n groot idee het wat jy wil doen – wat is stappe wat jy moet volg?

· Kry jouself georganiseerd. Jy moet jou planne in struktuur kry. Wanneer alles rondom jou in deurmekaar of in chaos is, raak dit moeilik om te fokus op jou drome. Sorteer jou lewe uit, sorteer jou lessenaar uit, kry die rompslomp uit jou lewe.

·  Kry samewerking / kry vir jou ‘n span. Selfs Mark Shuttleworth het ‘n span gehad. Chris Barnard wat die eerste hartoorplanting gedoen het, kon dit nie alleen doen nie. Hy het ‘n span saam met hom gehad. Neil Amstrong kon nie op die maan loop sonder  die hele NASA-span agter hom nie. Sol Kerzner het nie Sun City homself gebou nie – hy het ‘n span gehad.

·         Toon leierskap. Jy moet persoonlike leierskap vertoon. Dis jou projek, dis jou idee. Jy kan nie vir iemand anders wag nie. Jy moet opstaan en jy moet doen. Jy moet voorloop en die pas aangee. As jy jou idee wil laat maak werk, dan moet jy dit doen.

Pitkos gedagte vir die week:

Om jou drome werklikheid te maak

Moet jy ‘n droom in jou hart hê

Moet jy ‘n strategie in plek hê

Moet jy in jou hart die regte gesindheid hê

Moet in jou hande die aksie hê

Moet jy kan aanhou wanneer ander opgee

Moet jy leer om jou alles te gee

Vir motivering, op jou knieë is jy die beste gedek

Volg dan hierdie stappe, en jou sukses is in plek.
En doen jou beste – altyd! •

‘n Twede Huwelik

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‘n Tweede huwelik is nogmaals ‘n geleentheid vir ‘n nuwe begin –  ‘n tweede kans vir liefde.
Maak dit romanties en gesellig, maar niks oordadig – dit word kleiner en anders gevier as die eerste keer.

‘n Gebroke verhouding is altyd moeilik om te verwerk, maar ‘n egskeiding soveel meer.
Tog gaan die tyd verby, wonde genees en baie persone vind weer geluk.
‘n Tweede (of derde) huwelik bring baie meer bagasie, veral waar gevoellens van familie en vriende betrokke is.

Eerstens, neem jou aanstaande se kinders in ag.  Is  hulle gelukkig, en dra die verhouding hl goedkeuring weg? Maak seker dat hulle belangrik en betrokke voel.  Betrek hulle by die seremonie, tesame met enige kinders van jou eie.  Op die manier wys jy dat jy jou tot die nuwe gesin verbind en dat die kinders nou en vir altyd ‘n belangrike rol in  julle lewens gaan speel.

Wat die troue betref, wees sensitief vir die gevoellens van jou nuwe skoonouers.  Sy of haar ouers mag dalk bekommerd wees dat hul kind sekere foute herhaal, dalk ook bekommerd wees oor hoe dit hul kleinkinders gaan beïnvloed.  Die kinders kan straks senuagtig wees of selfs bitter voel, en vriende mag dalk skepties oor die saak wees.  Probeer verstaan hoekom hulle so voel en waardeer eerder die feit dat hulle wel daar is om julle op julle groot dag by te staan.  Berei jouself voor op potensiële negatiewe reaksie en wees bereid om die minste te wees.

Daar is ook praktiese besonderhede wat in gedagte gehou moet word, soos bv  jou trouklere vir ‘n tweede troue.  Volgens tradisie dra slegs eerste bruide wit, maar dis lankal uit die mode. Jy kan dus met vrymoedigheid in ‘n skitterwit skepping vir ‘n tweede of selfs derde maal trou beloof. Dit is egter steeds tradisie dat jy nie jou gesig met ‘n sluier kan bedek nie, so laat eerder jou sluier agter jou kop hang of dra ‘n hoed, fassineerder of blomme in jou hare.  Jou liggaamsvorm en styl het dalk ook al bietjie verander sedert jou eerste troue.  Hou dit in gedagte en dink logies wanneer jy ‘n uitrusting kies.

As jou aanstaande nog nie getroud was nie, moenie die pret en plesier van die groot dag vir hom of haar bederf nie.  Die persoon het dalk hoë verwagtinge vir die dag en dis belangrik dat jy dit respekteer en daarmee saamgaan.  Wees positief en akkommodeer jou aanstaande se wense sodat julle albei die dag kan hê waarvan julle gedroom het.

Wanneer mens later in jou lwe trou (of dit nou vir ‘n eerste of derde keer is), is dit vanselfsprekend dat jou smaak en drome gaan verskil van toe jy jonger was.  Jou vel en
Liggaamsvorm het ietwat verander en dis belangrik dat jy dit in gedagte hou sodat jy op jou beste lyk en voel.

Ongeag die styl en kleur wat jy kies, maak seker jou uitrusting weerspieël jou persoonlikheid.  Moenie iets kies slegs omdat jy dink dit word van jou verwag nie.   Jy is immers in ‘n stadium in jou lewe waar jy jouself ken en in jou vel gemaklik voel – maak nie saak wat ander dink nie. Wanneer dit by die kleur van jou uitrusting kom, het ouer bruide ‘n wyer keuse in terme van tradisies en wat die mense verwag. Jy hoef nie noodwendig ‘n maagd te wees om wit te dra nie, maar party ouer bruide voel steeds ongemaklik om in  wit te trou – in hierdie geval is enige kleur aanvaarbaar.  As jy graag in wit wil trou maar nie skitterwit nie, oorweeg eerder sjampanje of ivoorkleurige rok.  Daar is so baie rokstyle om van te kies – ‘n korter rok is altyd ‘n goeie opsie, aangesien dit uiters elegant is maar nie so uitspattig en formeel soos ‘n aandrok nie.

Daar is baie minder reëls en verwagtinge wanneer dit by tweede troues of troues tussen twee ouer mnse kom.  Teen hierdie tyd weet julle waarvan julle hou en kan julle die gaste met ‘n uitspattige partytjie bederf, of ‘n meer ontspanne familiebyeenkoms reël.  Tweede en opvolgtroues is geneig om meer gemaklik en informeel te wees as ‘n eerste, maar nie noodwendig nie.

Ouer bruide moet onthou dat plooie en littekens slegs getuienis van ‘n ryk en vol lewe is.  Tog is dit te verstane dat baie bruide dit op hul groot dag wil  wegsteek.  Hier is ’n paar fantastiese grimeerwenke vir ouer bruide.
Wees versigtig dat jy nie te veel onderlaag aanwend om plooie en velpigmete te probeer bedek nie.  Dis geneig om onegalige vel meer te beklemtoon en jou ouer te laat lyk.  Gebruik eerder ‘n ligte vloeibare onderlaag wat presies die regte kleur is en rond dit af met ‘n dun lagie verbronser of poeier.

Gebruik ‘n lipstiffie wat spesiaal ontwerp is om nie in fyn plooitjies om die mond in te loop nie.  Vermy lipglans en lipstiffies wat jou lippe dunner laat lyk as wat hulle werklik is.  Gebruik eerder ‘n lipstiffie met ‘n klein bietjie glans om die illusie van vol lippe te skep.
Gebruik ‘n maskara wat jou wimpers dik en lank laat vertoon en jou oë groter laat lyk, of besoek ‘n salon en laat sit vals wimpers in, spesiaal vir jou groot dag.

Julie Retief •

Van die Redaksie

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Mossel Bay to support Gardens of the Garden Route campaign
En  nou wil ek skreeu:  “jippie ons het klaar getrek”.

Alhoewel Vredebest se manne die grootste en hardste werk gedoen het (en ek moet bysê, baie goed gedoen het), bly so ‘n trekkery maar ‘n pynlike affêre.

Dis nou al dae later en ons pak steeds uit en reg.
Maar die belangrikste is … ons is nou gereed om vir Mosselbaai se mense met raad en daad by te staan.
Die beste diens teen die beste bekostigbare pryse.

Bertie ons grafiese kunstenaar en Sammy, sy assistant se inisiatief, geduld en kreatiwiteit ken geen perke.

“Lets keep it Local”.  Kom besoek ons gerus vir al u drukwerk – van boeke , pamflette tot kalenders.
Uprint Mosselbaai
No 103, Montagu Place
h/v Kerk en Springstraat

Tot ‘n volgende keer,

Mossel Bay and New York join hands

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Mossel Bay Tourism has announced that the new Mossel Bay Travel Festival (www.bit.ly/MBTFest) – which will take place from the 18th to the 20th of October this year – is now an affiliate of the New York Travel Festival (www.nytravfest.com).

“We looked at the New York Travel Festival, and decided we wanted to do something similar here because it talks directly to the social web, which we see as the future of marketing,” said Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm.

“And then when we approached the organiser of the New York Travel Festival, Roni Weiss, to ask if we could borrow his ideas, he immediately said ‘let’s work together’.”

The Mossel Bay Travel Festival is designed as a mash-up between discussions on the social web and events in the real world, and the organisers plan to measure its success by the presence it creates on the web.

“It’s designed as a celebration of travel in general, and also of Mossel Bay as a destination within the Western Cape Province, and the Garden Route and Klein Karoo region,” said Ms. Holm.

She said that the three days of the event will be dedicated to “Learning, Seeing, and Doing.

“Friday the 18th of October is planned as a day of discussions and presentations, and the Festival will begin with a Tourism Plenary, which will be hosted by the Western Cape’s MEC for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Alan Winde.

“These events are always valuable because they bring together top speakers who address subjects chosen by the delegates of the previous Plenary – they take place every six months, and this will be the first time ever that it’ll be brought to a venue outside of the Cape Peninsula,” said Ms. Holm.

“Then in the afternoon we’ll have four break-away sessions, where invited speakers will make presentations on holiday photography, accessing the German market, universal access in tourism, and the scientific significance of the archaeology of the Pinnacle Point Caves.

“These sessions will all be open to the public,” she said.

Saturday, said Ms. Holm, will be day of exhibitions during which tourism products and tourism-related organisations will exhibit at the Dias Museum Complex.

The day will also include a series of presentations about tourism products, and products which support the tourism industry.

“And Sunday will be a day of ‘Doing’ – a day of actual travel with outings and visits to some of Mossel Bay’s attractions and tourism products.

“We’re also hoping to arrange with some of our local collectors to present informal ‘Voorkamer Museums,’ during which members of the public can visit them in their houses or businesses to view their collections.”

Ms. Holm said that the Plenary will bring a large delegation of marketers from across the Province, and that almost all destination and regional marketing organisations have indicated that they’ll be present. Tour operator Hylton Ross has also agreed to sponsor the transport for ten hosted buyers from Cape Town, under the leadership of Lindsey Giboaud, of Big Tree Marketing.

“We urge the people of Mossel Bay and the Garden Route and Klein Karoo to come along and take part,” she said. “It’s going to be a great networking opportunity for the travel trade and the tourism industry, and for members of the public, it’ll be a wonderful opportunity to get to know more about our area – and to learn about special offers that’ll make a local holiday worth their while.”

More information:
Mossel Bay Tourism: www.visitmosselbay.co.za
Mossel Bay Travel Festival: www.bit.ly/MBTFest
New York Travel Festival: www.nytravfest.com  •

Total to operate CNR Outeniqua deepwater block

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point Total E&P South Africa BV has taken and the South African government approved a farmout from Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. on deepwater block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua basin offshore South Africa.

In exchange for a 50% working interest in the block and the right to operate, CNR received an undisclosed upfront cash payment, recovery of 50% of past costs, and a carry in the first exploratory well drilled up to a gross cost of $150 million.

The first well is to be drilled in 2014. In the event of a successful multiwell program to define the prospect and subsequent commercial development, additional consideration will be received.

The block covers 19,000 sq km in 200-1,800 m of water 175 km off South Africa’s southern coast. CNR has undertaken extensive seismic on the block, and the two companies will work to finalize a location for the first exploratory well.

The block lies southeast of Mossel Bay and east of established oil and gas-condensate fields.

Canadian Natural said it received a number of strong, competitive offers from well-known industry participants to partner with CNR on the blocks.

See more at:
http://thegremlin.co.za/mossel-bay-news/wordpress/2013/09/30/total-to-operate-cnr-outeniqua-deepwater-block/#sthash.Dc6wvHTi.dpuf •

New bird hide for Mossel Bay

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Botlierskop Private Game Reserve near Mossel Bay has opened a new bird hide on the banks of the Moordkuil River, which runs through its property.

Staff of the Reserve have built up a bird list of more than 200 species – including Knysna loerie, long crested eagle, swee waxbill, fish eagles, Verraux’s (black) eagle, martial eagle, black harrier, black headed heron, red knobbed coot, common moorhen, and pied, malachite, and giant kingfishers.

“Botlierskop is a great birding destination because it’s got a  variety of habitat types including wetlands, dams, coastal thicket, and fynbos,” said general manager, Francina Terblanche

Mossel Bay Tourism’s Marcia Holm said that birding is a growing niche in the tourism industry, and that Mossel Bay is “full of surprises” for birders.

“It’s good to see that our tourism products are starting to provide facilities for bird lovers, and we’re sure that more will follow.”

Pinnacle Conservation’s manager, Aiden Beck, agreed that Mossel Bay offers superb opportunities for birding.

“We’re fortunate that we’ve got a number of estuaries which attract a wide variety of birds – including greater flamingoes, which have been visiting the Tweekuilen Estuary for the last three or four months.”

He said that Pinnacle Conservation had coordinated the Mossel Bay Environmental Partnership’s two million rand Estuary Restoration Project, which had rehabilitated most of the estuaries along Mossel Bay’s coast between June 2011 and the end of 2012. Sponsored by PetroSA and instituted by the Municipality of Mossel Bay, the project  targeted the alien vegetation which impacts negatively on the physical and biological processes of the estuaries. It also restored natural, endemic vegetation to the river banks, and so returned them to a healthy, natural state.

“We’ve already noticed that the bird life is returning to these areas,” said Mr. Beck. “And the pathways that we’ve opened along the banks of the estuaries have made them more accessible for birders.”

Pinnacle Conservation also helps with the management of the 130 hectare reserve attached to the PetroSA Refinery, about 10 km west of Mossel Bay.

“It’s got quite a bit of fresh water, and we’ve seen the flamingoes there, too.”

Ironically, he said, the Hartenbos Sewer Works provides some of the best birding in the area.

Fred Orban, a member of the board of Mossel Bay Tourism and the owner of the Oystercatcher Trail, said that the Boggomsbaai area, which lies about 30 km west of Mossel Bay, and which forms a focal point of the Trail, also offers superb birding.

“We’ve had hundreds of flamingoes on the Langvlei, which is situated on the flood plain of the Gouritz River, and we often see huge numbers of blue cranes in this area at this time of year. On one occasion we estimated that there were between 400 and 600 individuals in a single area between Boggomsbaai and the Gouritz River mouth.”

The Gouritz River forms the spine of the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR), which stretches along the coast from the Great Brak River in the east to the Breede River in the west, and inland over the mountains to Montagu, Prince Albert, and Uniondale. The government of South Africa has nominated the GCBR for biosphere reserve status under the ‘Man and the Biosphere Programme’ of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

“We expect that the GCBR will attract an enormous amount of bird tourism in the future,” said Mr. Orban.

Ms. Holm said that inland birding is as rewarding as coastal birding in Mossel Bay.

“The Mossel Bay area stretches into the foothills of the Outeniqua Mountains, and properties like Eight Bells Mountain Inn, Bonniedale Holiday Farm, Gondwana Game Reserve, Jakkalsvlei Private Cellar, and many others all offer opportunities for spotting fynbos or forest species – and the raptors, of course.”

The new bird hide at Botlierskop is open only to the Reserve’s overnight guests. For information about birding at other properties in Mossel Bay, please contact Mossel Bay Tourism: www.visitmosselbay.co.za •

Mossel Bay to support Gardens of the Garden Route campaign

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Mossel Bay Tourism has joined Your Travel Guide – www.yourtravelguide.co.za – and the Gardens of the Garden Route campaign to promote the parks and gardens of the region.

“We’ve lost count of the number of times visitors have told us they were disappointed because they couldn’t see any gardens when they were here,” said the publisher of Your Travel Guide, Jeanetta Marais.

She said that she decided to re-package the generic information in her Guides after studying the market, and after looking at best practice in Queensland in Australia – which presents a very similar product offering to our own.

“We wanted to know what people are looking for, and we realised that South Africa, and particularly the Garden Route and the Klein Karoo, has the products – but they need to be presented differently.

“Products like whale watching, shark cage diving, human origins tours, beaches and museums will always remain the backbone of Mossel Bay’s product mix, but we need to present them alongside the natural and man-made gardens that give the area its name.”

The concept for the Gardens of the Garden Route was developed by Philda Benkenstein, who owns George’s Fairview Homestead B&B with her husband, Desmond.

“Desmond is the gardener in our family, and all our holidays revolve around gardening,” said Ms. Benkenstein.

“For years I’ve been trying to convince the garden clubs and nurseries to open themselves to tourism. We have some stunning gardens in this area, and they could attract both the European and the African markets.

“We recently met a group of sixty Kenyans when we were in Bedford in the Eastern Cape, and they were there to see the gardens. And we’ve also just come back from a holiday in France, where we stayed in one town in the Loire Valley for ten days, and visited a different garden every day – all within a 90 km radius of our accommodation.

“We could offer the same the in the Garden Route if we made the properties accessible.”

Mossel Bay Tourism chairman Renè Bongers said that he and his wife, Mary-Anne, recently hosted thirty members of a Mossel Bay garden club in his own, private garden.

“We built and planted it off designs which were drawn up for us by David Viljoen of Flora Farm – which was our local garden centre when we lived in Gauteng – and the club wanted to see how the process worked,” he said.

“It’s clear that gardens have enormous attraction for a very wide range of people – so it makes sense to package them and make them accessible to the public.”

He said Mossel Bay boasts a number of public gardens that could immediately be listed with the Gardens of the Garden Route campaign.

“The ethno-botanic garden, and the field garden at the Dias Museum complex come immediately to mind, because they include the Post Office Tree and the only Braille Trail in the Cape hinterland.”

But, he said, the Mossel Bay area has greater, international  significance as ‘nature’s garden.’

“The government of South Africa is in the process of applying for the proclamation of the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve – the GCBR (www.gouritz.com) – under UNESCO’s ‘Man and the Biosphere Programme,’ and Mossel Bay is the economic hub of this important, biologically diverse area,” he said.

“Biosphere reserves exist to foster sustainable development through the practical application of sound science – and gardening is an important part of this process.

“Also, the vegetation of this area was one the reasons why the small, core population which gave rise to all humans alive today was able to survive the glaciation event which turned most of Africa into a virtual desert around 164,000 years ago.” (Archaeologists working in  Mossel Bay have discovered the earliest evidence for modern human behaviour – including the use of ochre for symboling, and fire for creating better quality stone tools – from that period.)
Mr. Bongers said that Mossel Bay Tourism will now begin to actively engage with garden clubs, nurseries, botanists, and the owners of private gardens in order to bring them into the Gardens of the Garden Route campaign.

“This is an idea whose time has come, and we’re going to sell it as widely as we can,” he said.

More information:
Mossel Bay Tourism: www.visitmosselbay.co.za
Your Travel Guide: www.yourtravelguide.co.za
Gardens of the Garden Route: www.georgeopengardens.co.za and www.gardenroutegardens.co.za •

Best Ways On How To Housetrain A Dog

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It is always advisable to housetrain a dog as early as you possibly can. Just like infants, little puppies have no bladder control until they are around 3 months old. This means therefore you have to toilet train your puppy right from the start. But how do you go about housetraining? First and foremost, you have to understand that dogs have a very sensitive sense of smell, and have a natural sense for cleanliness, they will rarely spoil or soil an area, especially where they sleep or live unless they cannot help it. Here is how to housetrain a dog:

Mark the toilet area

Carry your dog outside first thing when he wakes up in the morning so that he does not eliminate upon touching the floor. Give him time to sniff around so he could find a place where he will be comfortable doing his thing, and once he does it, shower him with praises so that he knows that particular spot is his ‘toilet’.

Clearly mark a living area

You have to give your dog its own little area, and it is here that you can make use of a dog crate. Be advised though that your dog will not take to the crate immediately you introduce it, you have to do some prior training so it could get used to it. Ensure the crate is just the dog’s size, not too big or too small. For starters, you should cover one side of the crate with waste paper, just in case your dog loses his bowel control. Never shut your dog away from the family, always ensure the crate is placed in a corner within the house, a place where you can easily supervise it.

Introduce your dog to the whole house

After your dog masters his living and toilet areas, he will rarely have accidents in other rooms, and it is then that you should open him up to the entire house, one bedroom at a time. Start shifting his crate from one room to another, while keeping a close eye on him he doesn’t forget and misbehave. The moment he gets comfortable with the rooms, he will start thinking of the entire house as additional room to his little den.

Always love and respect your pet

An accident could occur because your dog couldn’t really help it, but it doesn’t mean you should scold or nag him, just treat him with love and respect and talk to him reassuringly.

Walk your dog a bit

Take time and spend with your dog, walking him around as you wait for him to finish eliminating. By helping him walk around, you will be helping him ease his bowel movement. You need to be very patient as this could take even an hour. When your dog completes his job, he deserves some praise, just as you would when you do something praise worthy.

Housetraining a dog takes a little time and effort on your part as the dog owner. Successful training means the dog can maintain the schedule for the rest of their life.

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Pencil Parable

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In the beginning, the Pencil Maker spoke to the pencil saying,;There are five things you need to know before I send you out into the world.
Always remember them and you will become the best pencil you can be.
The Pencil Parable
1. You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone’s hand. Allow other people to access you for the many gifts you possess.
You are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.’
2. You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but this is required if you are to become a better pencil. You will experience this when you are going through various problems, but you’ll need it to become a stronger person.  So you too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.
3. You have the ability to correct any mistakes you might make. Grow through them.
Looking back, it’s our mistakes that formed us into the person we are today.
4. The most important part of you will always be what’s inside. What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.’ Take care of your body and health.
5. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write. You must always leave a clear, legible mark no matter how difficult the situation. Everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action’No matter what the situation, you must continue to serve God in everything.
Everyone is like a pencil… created by the Maker for a unique and special purpose. By understanding and remembering, let us proceed with our life on this earth having a meaningful purpose in our heart and a daily relationship with God. You were Made to do Great Things! •