Trust www.Biz-Community.co.za to break the news before I do! I shared a delicious bottle of Glen Carlou Chardonnay with Media Nova's Tony Vaughan at Beluga last night. Tony wanted to chat to me about the Blog I'd written about Glenda Nevill's resignation from The Property Magazine. I was expecting mild fisticuffs but we had a wonderful chat instead. I found him extremely affable and look forward to our next bottle together.

His big news is that Donald Paul has been appointed as editor of The Property Magazine. What Biz-Community did not say about Donald is that his interests in property extend to civic involvement and while I was chairman of the Sea Point Ratepayers he was chair of the De Waterkant equivalent.

I worked with Donald extensively during his tenure as editor of Top of the Times and SA City Life and look forward to continuing the association at The Property Magazine. Hi wife, the fabulous Heather Parker and I were once neighbours in Observatory and when I first met Donald through Heather socially he lived on a rock-edge overlooking Sandy Bay. Even though De Waterkant is the chichi spot of the moment, I'm sure he must have some regrets to waking to the sound of nightclub's thumping and call-girl hollers instead of a Sandy Bay Oyster Catcher.