Gauteng Smallholder November 2015 | Page 8

MAILBAG Interesting content, market dates are best S ir ~ I found a copy of the Gauteng Smallholder at my local nursery. I have enjoyed reading the magazine thoroughly. The contents are very interesting and informative. Some are even useful to me, although we have a small garden. I'm also fascinated by the different kinds of advertisements. The best part is where one can find the upcoming events and market dates. Those Quirky pictures are simply the best! I sent them to my friends and family overseas and they had a good chuckle as they miss South Africa very much! Thank you and your team for your dedication and hard work, as well as the sponsors who make the magazine free, so the great contents in each issue can reach a lot of people. Please take care and keep up the good work. Sandy McCluskey From page 5 So you can rest assured that, while we will offer an on-line version of, hopefully, increasing utility and convenience, a paper-based Smallholder will be available to you for a long time. Even if you only use it to whack the dog (and I am PAPER MAG and often mature readerships such as ours. Having said that, the effects of internet-based publishing are causing “traditional” publishers to radically rethink their business models, and we are no exception. But we have no intention of rushing headlong into something that, firstly won't make a material difference to the lives of the majority of our readership and, secondly, won't make us substantial piles of cash. 6 www.sasmallholder.co.za Westgate Thank you for your kind letter. We appreciate positive feedback greatly: it makes our work very pleasant. ~ Editor reliably informed that the pages of old editions, if consigned to a nail on the wall of your outhouse, are no less unpleasant to use than the waxed Jeyes loo paper so widespread in post-War Britain.) ~ Editor