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Had it

As summer breathes its final breath and dies its final death, barely hanging on here in the Cape with a measly high of 28°C expected today, the bad news is that we still have a mosquito problem. Specifically in my bedroom last night. This is the downside of Cape Town summer for me and I [...]

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Admin

Apologies for the near radio silence on here at the moment. I have been working on some stuff behind the scenes here and also struggling under a mountain of admin elsewhere in my life. Hopefully, it should be all over in the near future. (The admin, not my life.) Also, I’ve just seen an advert [...]

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Youtube videos not playing on Chrome – Solved

I’ve been having a few issues with Youtube videos not playing in my Google Chrome browser. Instead, I just get a black screen and misery. I could, however, get those same videos to play on Internet Explorer. This situation was beginning to irk me, so I did some rudimentary exploration around my Chrome place and [...]

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Chicken Rock

My Mum and Dad recently jumped on a special ferry from Douglas in the Isle of Man to… er… Douglas… in the Isle of Man. This “round the Island” trip is a chance for locals to go… er… round the island and see it from a different perspective. Here’s one of the photos they took: [...]

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Constantia Food & Wine Festival

I’m tired. This afternoon brought with it much activity and when your right leg is incapable of much activity, you take the strain. Thus, I am strained, and was it really worth it? The Constantia Food and Wine Festival promised much, but delivered little. It was poorly organised, poorly stocked (many places had run out [...]

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