Monthly Archives: February 2009

Important admin announcement

Hello. There are a few issues with ballacorkish.net. For 99.99% of you, this will mean that your lives will continue as normal; you will have one too many glasses of white wine on a weeknight, talk disparagingly about your boss and recount that story about that thing that happened at Jane’s fancy dress party when you [...]

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Not sour grapes…

…but when your team goes out of the FA Cup because of this: GOAL Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United It’s an unbelievably controversial goal and the Blades will be furious about that one. A cross from the Hull right is for some reason headed against the underside of his own crossbar by Kyle Naughton and [...]

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Jumping the gun

The South African Police Service get a lot of criticism for their sometimes lacksidasical approach to the job, but in this case, they’re certainly ahead of the game: Eleven critical after Alberton crash Eleven people were critically injured when a taxi and a Toyota Corolla collided head-on in Alrode South, Alberton this morning, Ekurhuleni metro [...]

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The Tale of Blanket Man

More from the free weekly amusement that is the Southern Suburbs Tatler. You may recall the story of the annoying church bells, which they ran a couple of weeks ago. This time, they’re reporting on a recent Residents’ and Ratepayers’ Association meeting in the suburb of Pinelands. Now, I’ve no doubt that there are some serious issues being [...]

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Sorry – not today

I apologise for the lack of a post today. I woke a little late and now there’s a bit of a queue to use the internet. Such is life in Africa.

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