I’ve received an e-mail from a concerned reader who manages a restaurant.

She recently found out that the owner – who resides in Britain and only visits South Africa twice a year – had put the restaurant in the market some months ago.

Due to the current economic climate, there has been very little interest so far. The restaurant is also in a poor location, which is not helping matters.

She has now been advised that the owner has decided to operate on a skeleton staff and that he will be reducing the number of employees through a retrenchment process.

Yes! Some people are just too useless to help themselves or to be helped. Some are hell bent on experiencing as many things as they can dream up, to prove  their perceptions that they are victims of some evil Universal force’s desire to put them through hell, are true. Others, believe that perhaps some ever loving God has a plan for their lives and that they just don’t seem to understand it,. Or maybe, they are all really just useless and are using their vast intelligence to justify themselves. This debate will go on for ever; the super achievers will continue to do what they do best and so will all the others.

Have you seen the scars of a loved on who hurts herself/himself?  Have you witnessed someone sitting with a razor blade cutting themselves?   These acts are enormously disturbing and distressing for those who witness them or are aware of them.  These acts are sometimes superficial scratches on the skin, but can be more serious and dangerous when people burn or cut themselves.  In extreme cases people can even remove a body part.  This behavior is devastating to witness and is a great risk. Why do people do this to themselves?  These people will often report that they experience a compulsion.  They experience a buildup of tension that leads to an irresistible urge to discharge the tension with the act of self-mutilation.

In The King Edward Hotel you will be discovering the originality and the authenticity, of the Edwardian Era, which was the age of innovation and for so many reasons that era provided inspiration. The golden era with its elegance is captured into the hotel that dates back to 1903.
 
The King Edward Hotel is situated near the beach in the midst of a historical and commercial hub interspersed by inner city suburbia and the historical Donkin Reserve.