Monthly Archives: September 2007

It doesn’t happen often…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 28, 2007

…so perhaps you should mark this post in some special way so that you can come back here and marvel at this most unusual of occurrences. Yes, I may have been “a bit wrong” in my last post. See, actually while I was writing my previous post about this place, one of the local lions [...]

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I must be Mad-ikwe

By 6000 | 6000 | September 25, 2007

We’re in Madikwe Game Reserve up on the Botswana border in the north of SA for a wedding of a friend. It was a hell of a trip up here yesterday. Leaving Alex at home in the safe hands of Granny and Poliswa, we set out at 5:30am for the flight to Jo’burg and then [...]

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T.B. in S.A. – it’s B.A.D.

By 6000 | 6000 | September 19, 2007

Following a myriad of complaints about my absence, I’m back. When I say “myriad”, it was actually three complaints. And two of them were by the same person. But who’s au fait with the literal meaning of “myriad”, anyway? Top of the list for today is TB. I work with the stuff and it’s just [...]

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A Nation Mourns As One (Almost)…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 10, 2007

I know that I’ve previously mentioned (here and here) the issues around race and sport in South Africa and the difficulties these have caused in gaining support for the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament, which is due to start in South Africa at ten past eight. Or something. Well, those issues surely came to [...]

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Spring Day and more…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 1, 2007

Once again, South Africa’s unofficial “Spring Day” (today) is ruined by the typically unspringlike weather which has left puddles on my lawn and rendered Table Mountain completely invisible, in a spookily David Copperfield kind of way. Is this some hideous effect of climate change? Season creep? Or just a hopelessly optimistic plan by the locals [...]

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