Author Archives: 6000

Photo fuss

By 6000 | 6000 | November 9, 2009

A couple of my photos from the “Wet Weekend” set seem to have caused a bit of a stir, which is nice. I’m referring to Patio Splashes: and his singular brother, Patio Splash. They were the result of some playing around with various settings (Exposure 0.001sec (1/1300), Aperture f/5.0, Focal length 26.7mm), while lying on my [...]

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Snails, Cheese and Wine. And Rain. And Footy.

By 6000 | 6000 | November 8, 2009

It’s been a wet weekend. Very wet. Latest figures from Kirstenbosch suggest that they weren’t really expecting rain at this time of year and forgot to put the rainfall gauge out. But if they had have done, it would have been full. And that’s a lot of water. I would look it up on the SA [...]

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Sweet smell of success

By 6000 | 6000 | November 7, 2009

After a good deal of fun, some out of date Jack Black Beer and no small amount of success (R1,500 worth of prizeware for us) at Cafe Roux’s JDI Charity Pub Quiz evening last night, many of the male attendees crowded around the bar and the small, yet perfectly formed flatscreen TV therein to watch the worst [...]

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Questions, questions…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 6, 2009

I will be expecting a lot of them this evening at the JDI charity quiz evening at Cafe Roux in Noordhoek  this evening. The money raised will be shared between the Bulungula Incubator in the Transkei and Ferndale Primary in Ottery. The Bulungula Incubator strives to be a catalyst for the creation of a vibrant and [...]

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Every day…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 5, 2009

Every day, I am blown away by the beauty of the mountain. (When it’s visible and not hidden behind shedloads of dark grey cloud, obviously.) This was from my drive home tonight. Full size with option of spankingly large desktop background size here. Pedants (you know who you are): This doesn’t count as a quota [...]

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