Peninsula School Feeding Association Dinner Tonight!

Chefs Margot Janse and Reuben Riffel serve a dinner with a difference tonight, October the 9th, at Reuben's Restaurant in Franschhoek with dishes made from soya relish, pilchards and breyani lentils. The menu items form the staple fare of more than 233 000 children in 633 schools in the Western Cape who are given a hearty daily meal by the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA).

The fundraising dinner marks the start of the Department of Health’s National Nutrition Week from 9 – 13 October. To RSVP, contact Linet at Hippo Communications at 021 557 0246 or email linet@hippocommunications.com

Family Picnic and Live Entertainment at Nederburg

Nederburg is celebrating summer with a delicious picnic and live music event on Saturday, October 16 from 11:00 until 15:00.

Bring along the family and friends and as you sip on refreshing Nederburg wines and nibble tasty gourmet goodies from Nederburg’s kitchen, listen to Sound Image, Gary Deacon’s five-piece band. Guitarist Gary will be joined by Andrew Ford on keyboard, Ivan Bell on drums, Willie van Zyl on saxophone, clarinet and penny whistle and vocalist Haydn Gardner. From swing to Latino, from traditional to rock & roll and contemporary popular songs from the 1960s to now, their repertoire caters to everyone. Entertainment for the children will also be on offer.

Pack picnic blankets and chairs and when you arrive, let the surrounding mountains, verdant vineyards and magnificent gardens relax and revive you, while you enjoy Nederburg’s award-winning wines and feast on the splendid Flavours of the Cape picnic selection brimming with freshly-baked bread, locally-produced cheeses, an assortment of crackers, preserves, cold meats, kebabs, smoked Franchhoek salmon trout, homemade salmon pâté, dips, salad, an olive and spinach tartlet, a sweet treat and mineral water. Vegetarian and kiddies’ picnic baskets are also available.

The Flavours of the Cape and vegetarian picnic baskets are offered at a cost of R145 a head and those for children under 12, at R60 a head. The cost in both instances includes the live and children’s entertainment. You may bring along your own picnic basket, in which case the cost of the live entertainment will be R80 per person, while children under 12 will be admitted free of charge. Guests are however requested not to bring their own wine as Nederburg wines will be for sale along with mineral water, juice, coffee, tea and ice cream.

Complementary cellar tours will be offered to the first 30 guests attending the family day who arrive at the Visitors’ Centre (from where the tour starts) at 10:30 and 12:00 respectively.

Please book your picnic basket and/or live entertainment by contacting Sunette Rust on 021 862 3104 or on nedwines@distell.co.za.

The actual picnic season at Nederburg runs seven days a week from the beginning of November until the end of March. Picnic baskets are to be booked two days in advance by contacting Nederburg and can be collected between 12:00 and 15:00.

Nederburg offers visitors a range of experiences all year round, from cellar tours, wine tastings and food- and-wine pairings to seasonal events including the picnics and harvesting breakfasts. Go to www.nederburg.co.za or the winery’s Facebook page or call 021 862 3104 for details of concerts, celebrations and other special events.

AgriWorks Famers Expo

11 - 13 November 201, Van der Stel Sports Grounds, Stellenbosch

The expo focuses on farming equipment, services and the transfer of knowledge to wine and fruit growers, and is relative to all other agricultural produce. More than 120 suppliers will exhibit their products and services to farmers, winemakers and the agri-trade at large. The programme include various activities and workshops, with talks, demonstrations and technical tastings. A farm workers programme is also available on Thursday and Friday mornings. Saturday also includes activities and entertainment for the family. A must visit event for all farmers, winemakers, the agricultural trade and even gardeners. Public also welcome.

Cost: R20 at entrance or on the web site www.agriworks.co.za Email: admin@cadek.co.za Tel: 021 855 4750

The 1st Franschhoek Paarl Advertiser

Revive and Reconnect - Le Franschhoek’s Yoga Retreat

Relax the mind, refresh the body, renew the spirit and reconnect the souls in one of the most breathtaking settings the Cape has to offer.

Le Franschhoek Hotel and Spa invites guests to join their “Couples Yoga Retreat”, which will run over four months starting on October 15^th. The package will include a two night stay at Le Franschhoek Hotel, breakfast, two lunches, two dinners, one massage and four yoga classes at R1650 per person per night sharing.

Specially designed yoga classes will be held in the gardens as well as the Wine House in order to take full advantage of the serenity and tranquillity the valley and its surrounding mountain region has to offer. The classes will be based on Hatha Yoga – a technique which uses breath and body postures to obtain stillness of the mind while also incorporating postures that can be done with partners.

“We want to invite guest to experience a weekend of deep connection with their partners, while discovering the healing and energising benefits of yoga. The retreats are not limited to romantic partners but also ideal for friends with a shared interest, “says Le Franschhoek GM Eben Lassen.

Apart from the 63 stylish rooms to choose from, the hotel also features a luxurious Camelot Spa, the unique, innovative French Affair picnics in Le Verger Restaurant set in an orchard, a sparkling swimming pool, tennis courts and a ballroom area.

Located in the world famous Cape Winelands, Le Franschhoek Hotel and Spa has become one of the most exclusive getaways in its class. Capturing the essence of five star luxury, Le Franschhoek represents the most romantic of Cape Wineland retreat-style resorts, with wellness and the good life at its core.

· Le Franschhoek Hotel & Spa. 021-876-8900. www.lefranschhoek.co.za.

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The Crying Game: Chatting to Rob Watts of SwingFit

The Sports Reporter plays some mind games with SwingFit

Rob Watts is a golf coach from London who currently works with six European tour pros ranked in the World’s top 500. Qualified in biomechanics, he had a reasonable playing career before going into coaching in 2005 and 18 months ago was approached by Simon Hunt from SwingFit with the idea of setting up an acadeymy in South Africa, principally to bring international players
and teams here for three-week coaching packages during the European winter. Three academies later (at Pezula, Oubaai and Pearl Valley) Rob has established himself as a leading thinker on performance golf and rather self-deprecatingly acknowledges that the more he learns the more he realises how poor a coach he was beforehand! We caught up with him at Pearl Valley Estates and asked him “what’s the difference between straightforward golf coaching and ‘performance’ coaching?”

Rob Watts: Is it a mental and emotional approach – the technical side of it is only 2% to 3% of the story - involving emotional management classes right through to chipping the ball over a bunker. The difference is that the client sets his own goals as to what he wants to achieve and then it is our job to create the critical path of how he achieves that goal. rather than just fixing it, we ask what drives a player to make a poor swing, so it’s more about goal-setting and expectation of outcome that influences decision-making before the shot is played. most bad shots are hit even before the set up - if it was all about keeping your left arm straight and your head down, why don’t we just do that? So we try to find out the ‘why’, and then fix it.

The Month: with a mental and technical approach?

RW: Too much technical coaching can turn a good player into a bad player unless he understands why he’s making mistakes. It’s like going on a diet instead of understanding why you over-eat. I’m not saying that an 18-handicapper doesn’t need to make technical changes - undoubtedly he does - the question is how you get him to make those changes. what is driving poor performance? what is driving the player to hit bad shots? we try to communicate the changes that need to take place in the swing and do that quickly. For example, if your heart rate is different between shots your swing will be different - the emotions going through your heart affect your brain and how you think. The truth is that if you’ve hit the ball well once you could hit it well every time. The question is why you don’t.

TM: and I guess a good time to start is when you are young?

RW: movement patterns are required in every sport and undoubtedly, the more sports you play, the better you become at the sport you want to play or want to get good at. at age seven, children have their highest ability to learn - whether that’s a language, a musical instrument or a skill. It’s about doing repetitive movements at the right age. The biggest reward is seeing how quickly youngsters change with the right training. but I also think families should look at golf for their kids not only as a life sport but as a nice way to spend quality time with them.

TM: Lastly rob, he’s having a bit of a hard time right now, how would you fix tiger woods?

RW: There are very few sportsmen who move perfectly. once the athlete can tell you as a coach what he needs to work on, it’s already a success because then they are mentally in tune with what they are trying to do and can conduct their own training sessions. tiger can do this and his movement patterns are world class – he just needs to go back to what he was doing 13 years ago when he won the masters by 12 strokes. what was going on in his mind as he settled over his shot 13 years ago is not the same as what’s going on his mind now and that’s the problem. having
achieved everything he may also have lost the will to win.

TM: Thanks rob

In addition, rob has two academies in the UK and is looking to set up academy in america.

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