Move over Calendar Girls - welcome calendar boys. Barely had one calendar with semi-naked men landed on my desk, when another one plopped down.
It seems men have taken the lead from the Calendar Girls, the group of mature Yorkshire women who bared all (well, almost all) to pose for a calendar to raise funds for cancer a few years back. And then they made a movie.
A calendar featuring hunky men is the Nando's flaming hot calendar, has not 12 but 24 pictures of your favourite rugby players in various degrees of nakedness.
The calendar is a celebration of what is appealing about South African rugby, said Mark Keohane who teamed up with Highbury Monarch Communications, publisher of SA Rugby Magazine, to create South African rugby's first creative calendar.
The calendar features 18 of rugby's hottest players and is on sale at CNA for R90.
In the second calender, Men at Work - A Celebration of South African Craftsmen, cookies are replaced by crafts and pianos by rainsticks.
It's a joint initiative of the Masizakhe Craft Co-Operative and the African Art Factory, and features 12 Western Cape craftsmen, all of whom sell their work at the Red Shed at the V&A Waterfront.
Luvuyo Nyathi, who lives in Langa, has been turning recycled cooldrink cans into a variety of products. He's working through the night at present filling orders. What was it like being a pin-up model?
"I didn't have a problem. I loved being on the calendar. This was my first experience of being a model, and we laughed a lot.
"But I refused to take off all my clothing."
Nyathi has 12 people working for him, and spends much of his time training others to work magic with old cold drink cans.
Timothe Sibanyone, who learned Ndebele beadwork from his mother Betty Mathibela, works from home in Du Noon, making headbands, jewellery, dolls and tea nets "I didn't really understand why I should take all my clothes off - but there's always a first time!
"I was happy to do it - as long as it's good for business, it's okay."
Masizakhe is a job-creation project launched in 1991 to create opportunities for local craftsmen.
"In order to fund our dream of a workshop where new crafters can be trained, we decided to launch a fundraising project," says Masizakhe manager Bonita De Kock. "Not to be outdone by the ladies in England, our male crafters shed their clothes."
The calendar sells for R75 at the Masizakhe stall at the Red Shed.
A DVD of the making of the calendar will be out soon.