Hi Everyone!

Smack Bang - right in the middle of a Cape winter! With the required storms and rain to boot!!!

Land Rover owners are definitely the fortunate ones, as we have the advantage of 4 wheel drive (most of them permanent 4x4) and decent ground clearance. So … flooded roads and slippery gravel bits are actually a welcome change from the usual monotonous daily commute, unless you are driving a characterless Asian micro tin box on four wheels! May the Western Cape dams all overflow by the end of winter!

CLRC OPPORTUNITY AND A CALL FOR HELP:

The cover pages we use to bind the newsletters in, have now nearly run out (at last – ed). If there are any budding artists out there that would like to submit designs of how they believe the cover page should look, PLEASE submit to any committee member or the editor by Sunday 23 August 2009 latest. Please add your name and contact details on the back of the page. The rules are easy and simple: We need an A5 sized page (half of A4) design for a new coverpage that incorporates the CLRC name and logo as well as the newsletter name “Roving Reporter”. The concept may include photographic images and/or artistic sketches that will print well. (Colour or black & white).

The coverpage selected will be a committee decision and the winning design will rewarded with a CLRC prize. The committee decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

For those businesses who are interested in advertising on the front inside, rear inside and/or rear backpage of the cover, please contact the environmental officer (Peter Brandt) or the editor with your proposals and/or requests. The idea is that the printing costs will be shared by the advertisers.

Call for contributions: Please, all reports/submissions are most welcome. Remember this is our magazine. Note that the deadline is the 20th of each month. If anyone has any relevant photographs, please forward for inclusion in the newsletter.

Due to a number of reasons, (all them valid, I assure you), I will be stepping down as editor. This is the last newsletter I will be publishing. Please join me in wishing Darron Misplon all the best as the new editor. And to those trusted members who faithfully contributed articles and images etc, a big THANK YOU and please keep on supporting Darron!