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Dates & News:

ZimDog News, can be accessed from: www.vanerp.net.

Zimbabwe Kennel Club:
The Zimbabwe Kennel Club office will now only be open on a Friday each week, 14.00-16.00 CAT.

Local Shows and Fairs

Bulawayo Combine Shows:
Have postponed till next year.

MLKA & HKC Shows:
They have booked their dates for 28 & 29 June 2008, with imported Judges. Put this in your diaries.

Working Breeds Club of Mashonaland:
Breed, Obedience and Dog jumping on 25 May 2008.

Mukuvisi Shows:
All sponsored by PEDIGREE and proceeds to help the S P C A in the wonderful work they do for all animals

Emigrants loosing out on a lot of fun

All you emigrants from Zimbabwe, having immigrated into UK, US, Britain, Aussie or where ever you have settled, take note of some sayings we laugh about in Zimbabwe.

Can you remember the time we had no water, but all other items were still abundant? To preserve water with our toilets: when it’s yellow let it mellow, when it’s brown flush it down.

We now have the Big 5, or perhaps it would be the Big 6 ? I do engrave the Big 6 on my wine glasses: Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Hippo, Leopard and Rhino. This has changed into: Zesa, Zinwa, Fuel, Bread, Cooking Oil and Cash.

Dr Gono had a speech/explanation last night. The 200 000 bearers note will not be valid anymore as from the 1^st January. This is because 65 Trillion was printed and only 1 Trillion is in the banks. Where are all the other 64 trillion? To overcome this cash drainage, the 200 000 note will be phased out in the next 10 days or so. Instead new notes of 250, 500 and 700 000 have been printed. I went to the bank to deposit my 20 million in 200 000 notes and could get 20 million cash today. Some days you can get 5 million, some days 10 million and today 20 million cash. My surprise was: Banking 20 million in 200 000 notes and getting 20 million cash in the same denomination back. Great day for organized Chaos.

You emigrants are loosing out on a lot of laughter we enjoy here. 

Working Breed Club of Mashonaland AGM

The committee is as follows: - Ms. G. McLaughlan - Chairman Mr. R. Ellis - Treasurer Ms. A. Folkertsen - Secretary Mr. D. Lamb - Prizes Officer Mrs. G. Little - Trophy Officer Ms. G. McLaughlan - Show Secretary The show is on the 25th. of May 2008 with Breed, Obedience & Dog Jumping. The CD Working Trials shows will be at the end of August.

News from Virginia Wigham I've settled in Tavistock, which is a small market town in West Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor. It is a pleasant little place and very laid-back, which I like. I have a bungalow with a very small garden and have a mini wirehaired dachshund (pic attached), who comes to work with me daily. You can see her on YouTube - if you put in Ginwig (my username) it comes up with the 3 videos, which I have posted of Indy. You can see she has lots of prey-drive and is great fun to have around. I would have liked a bigger dog, but as Indy comes to work and sits under my desk all day, anything with more energy that takes up more room might have been a problem. She does miss out on walks though, as I have to shut her in the kitchen when I want to do a proper walk, as she can't keep up with me! Cheryl Cargill lives not far away and we went to a dog show together a few weeks ago. It was good to see her and she looks well and seems happy and settled here. I did go to Cape Town in February for my step-son’s wedding, and Jonathan managed to get an ETD to travel down (he has no passport) so we all met up and had a great week there.

"Zimbabwe's Traveling Man"

3rd Sage - Round The World with The Traveling Man

Friday the 16th November saw us braving the new security procedures at Manchester airport, to start the journey to Toronto from London Heathrow; nobody told this Traveling Man, a lady, that even her jars of make up and the like, were not allowed as hand baggage and  the crunch line came when her large bottle of Chanel 5 was threatened with being binned!!!  Imagine it – dumping Chanel No. 5!!!   So back we went - we reversed the procedure and checked our hand luggage as baggage;  the fact that we then had 4 pieces of checked baggage was conveniently organized by BA!!!  Good on you for public relations organizing.

Things were even stricter at Heathrow, but we relaxed in the BA Lounge and forgot our woes - until lunch was served

Kennel Club of Harare held their Christmas party on 16 December.

Getting ready to carry a tray with a cup of water, Gladys demonstrating	Participating in the fastest recall, guess what? A  border collie won the timing.
Public and participants sitting at the side	Musical chairs action

 

A lovely picture of Gladys who is still going strong and not a grey hair to be seen. She is amazing in what she does for all the clubs and every Sunday helping so many people with their dogs. Of course she is not the only one who does things at the club, to mention a few: Ursula Mc Kinlay, the Cories, Ray Folcarelli, David & Linda Lamb and not to forget the people who sit in the various club committee’s keeping clubs and shows running. A reminder of previous news letter, please do think of the Kennel club as they would love you to donate a little towards keeping these grounds going on for us all. I believe there is an account available to send your donation to and we all would be very grateful. To all doggy members here in Zimbabwe and certainly to all former doggy members, now living all over the world: A happy Christmas and the best for the New year from all of us here to all of you there.

An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen. The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, "Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly." 

The other man said, "What is the name of the restaurant?" The first man thought and thought and finally said, "What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know.... The one that's red and has thorns."