Page 3 - INTRA MUROS November 2020

CONTENTS

ESTATE NEWS LIFESTYLE
Message from the CEO 2 African Turf Academy at Silver Lakes 12
Security on the Estate 4 Gardening: Annuals 14
News from the Angling Club 8 November in the Garden 16
News from the Country Club 11 Silver Lakes Bird and Photography Club Cover photo by Albert Roos
Competition 18
MOTORING Lessons from a Locust 21 HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Opel Crossland X 1.6TD 37 Travel Specials 30 Hack your brain into feeling happy 27
BMW 330d 39 Summer recipes 34
CLASSIFIEDS 41
NATURE TODAY’S CHILD
Kruger Park recovering from lockdown 32 Colouring in Competition 23 HUMOUR
A positive mindset for the James Clarke:
upcoming exams 24 The shrinkage of the artificial brain 44

SILVER LAKES CONTRIBUTORS
EIA PUBLISHING OFFICE Tel: 011 327 4062 - www.eiapublishing.co.za
27 Muirfield Boulevard, Silver Lakes HOA Elize Malan PUBLISHER Nico Maritz - nico@eiapublishing.co.za
Silver Lakes, 0081 Silver Lakes Directors Ilse Ruane GRAPHIC DESIGNER Christo van Eeden - beyond@bdstudio.co.za
PO Box 11106 Henk Booysen Albert Roos SALES MANAGER Martin Fourie - 072 835 8405 - martin@eiapublishing.co.za
Silver Lakes 0054 Hennie du Plessis Andre and Wilie ADVERTISING SALES Gerdie Murphy - 082 556 9863 - gerdie@eiapublishing.co.za
Tel: +27 12 809 0142 Brendon van PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR & ASSISTANT EDITOR
Nieuwenhuizen Nicole Hermanson - nicoleh@nowmedia.co.za
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

very year typically has a few defining active and entertained. Be sure to check if you’re not a professional photographer.
moments, and 2020 is certainly no out our Travel Specials in this issue and take Who knows – you could turn your hobby
Eexception! Its many life-changing advantage of the great offers available. into a new career!
events will go down in history as being one
that we would probably all like to forget, Now that summer and its thunderstorms Dr Ilse Ruane gives sound advice to those
but never will! With a pandemic still raging are (hopefully) here, our CEO Henk Booysen preparing for exams; it is always an anxious
and waves of social change swirling around cautions residents about being on the golf time for children as well as their parents. We
the globe, we are living in uncertain times course when the siren is sounded. Please wish you the best of luck as you await your
that show no signs of abating. take heed of this, as well as the other golf results. Remember to always stay safe and
course rules pertaining to people and their take care of each other as you celebrate
As we wind down towards the end of the pets. They are there for everyone’s safety, your achievements.
year and the festive season, many of us will and to ensure that we all benefit from living
already be thinking of the holidays that we here. Until next time, take care.
have planned and are looking forward to.
For those who have chosen to stay at home, I encourage you to take part in the Nicole Hermanson
finding things to do with the kids will also photographic competition being run by the
need to be planned so that they are kept estate’s bird and photography clubs, even

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