It is so nice to see your smiling face on my computer screen. Congratulations on a fantastic job, and welcome to the first world.

I have worked for free on a small movie set for three weeks and on Friday I will be an extra in a Cowboy TV series called 'Nothing too good for a Cowboy. There is almost a movie set on every corner in Vancouver in the summer, which is why it is called Northern Hollywood!

[Chris Grindley-Ferris (former SABC television editor and producer and one-time drummer for the Durban band, The Clan, now living in Canada). E-mail: grindley@sprint.ca]