Monthly Archives: March 2010

Hometown Prettiness

By 6000 | 6000 | March 5, 2010

While we’re suffering the slings and arrows of the outrageous thirties, the UK has had a horrible, horrible winter. Much of which has been beautifully documented by flickr user karl101. These are two of my favourites, snowy foggy view and ferris with moon, but his whole photostream is well worth a (long) look.

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This too shall pass

By 6000 | 6000 | March 4, 2010

I recognise that this is going to be blogged ad nauseum over the next month, but I’m still going to throw a post up (geddit?) on here because I think it’s brilliant. Remember OK GO and their song Here It Goes Again back in 2006? No? How about if I ask whether you remember the [...]

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The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2010

I can’t be arsed with the Daily Mail anymore. Who could forget the infamous Peter Hitchens piece in the Daily Mail last year, covered so adequately in my “The Daily Mail Quandary” post? The quandary being that while the Mail is seventeen different sorts of crap and provides a platform to ill-informed and racist bigots, it [...]

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Early morning…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 2, 2010

I pulled back the bedroom curtain this morning to reveal a beautiful peachy cloud-topped Table Mountain, glorious blue skies and a moon handily placed so as to balance the left hand side of the vista. It seemed rude not to share. Must get those trees trimmed… Bigger here.

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Fly the flag – could do better

By 6000 | 6000 | March 1, 2010

The Fly the Flag campaign is another event to mark an important day in the countdown towards the World Cup. There are just 100 days to go before the tournament starts on June 11th and South African Tourism is asking people to get excited about it. And why not? Although, I do have a problem [...]

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