It’s that time of year again. No, not when we marvel that Christmas decorations are up earlier this year than last, but when we celebrate all things rock and green at Rocking the Daisies. This year, Rocking the Daisies will take place on the 7^th, 8^th and 9^th of October at the same old spot – Cloof Wine Estate in Darling.

According to Helen Herimbi (iol.co.za), you can get to the festival with around 150 cyclists who will cycle approximately 350km to enjoy the sights and sounds, or you can participate in Walking the Daisies, which goes along the west coast (you can donate R150 to raise funds for children who need school shoes), or you can fly. The Daisies Plane, courtesy of Velvet Sky Airlines, offers return flight for R999.

Leon Schuster is perhaps most famous for the two Mr Bones movies, which broke box office records across South Africa (only Titanic sold more tickets than the two Mr Bones movies). He’s also famous for his candid camera type stunts, the most well-known of which has to be when he got slapped around by heavy weight boxer Jimmy Abbot (now a globe-trotting evangelist). His new movie, which he’s only just started shooting, looks like it will be bigger than all his previous films put together, especially if Disney has anything to say about it.

And the Walt Disney Company will have something to say about it because it’s putting up some of the financing for the film. It will also handle distribution and marketing, which means that for the first time in life, Schuster could go global.