Monthly Archives: January 2010

Top Gear Live – Cape Town

Last night we headed out to the Grand West Arena, which - in a fit of misnomers – is not particularly spectacular and lies to the east of here – to see the Top Gear Live Roadshow.  The tickets weren’t cheap, but were actually excellent value: what a hugely entertaining experience. Explosions, stunts, laughs, fun, even international [...]

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trudyplankton coming to a friendly store near you……. xxx

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The Molton Brown Curry Club avoided curry this month (for reasons that I won’t go into) and headed out locally last night for our monthly dinner evening, this time at Home restaurant in 2nd Avenue, Kenilworth – a venue chosen by the Tall Accountant. As Dave Gahan once put it in Depeche Mode’s song about this intimate, down-to-earth eatery: And [...]

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Short-sighted Idiots

As FIFA announced that 2 million tickets had been sold for the 2010 World Cup in June and took a well-justified pot shot at the idiots in the German and English media and “football family” (Uli Hoeness and Phil “Sphincter Face” Brown, they mean you) who keep taking unjustified pot shots at South Africa, [a [...]

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Doing it every day

I’vebeen at it every day for almost a year now. Unlike Tiger Woods’ missus, my wife knows all about my addiction and she’s been very supportive. But then again, my blog doesn’t send me late night SMSs about how it’s missing me. Obviously, it would if it could – it’s just that I haven’t found a [...]

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