Monthly Archives: March 2010

Twelve sorts of hectic

Damnit. This is going to be one of those annoying admin posts, isn’t it? Well, yes. Sadly it is. Unlike some of the local bloggers, for me, work is definitely not a sideline. I enjoy my job and I like making a difference. But sometimes, work goes super crazy and leaves no time for anything else. This [...]

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Dan and Dan on the Daily Mail

We’ve had more than a couple of run-ins with the useless tabloid rag which is Britain’s Daily Mail here on 6000 miles… There was that Peter Hitchens racist nonsense, their laughably inaccurate reporting on the Fishhoek shark attack and then, more recently, the whole Jacob “Vile Buffoon” Zuma thing during JZ’s state visit to Britain. It is, [...]

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Cape Town’s Cat’s Eye Traffic Signals

I’m ridiculously excited about this. An interesting development in the interesting development which is taking place at the bottom of Buitengracht ahead of the World Cup is the addition of cat’s eye traffic signals to the junction with Western Boulevard. These nifty little lights run right the way across the junction, along the painted white line of [...]

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Foot of the Mountain

Those of you who follow me on twitter will already have heard about my run in with an allegedly incompetent doctor at a local A&E department last night. While I am feeling much better this morning than I was yesterday evening, I’m not anywhere near 100% just yet, so I’m lying in bed, watching football and [...]

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Not much longer

Not feeling great today, so quick quota photo taken from the Elton John concert the other night. Those are Cape Town’s Northern Suburbs in the sun, Goodwood through to Bellville. And in the foreground, in the shadow of the mountain, Newlands Stadium. Somewhere between the two (towards the right) is the Athlone Power Station, whose two iconic [...]

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