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March desktop

By 6000 | 6000 | March 12, 2012

Belatedly, I know. But I couldn’t find anything worth desktopping and I don’t want to give you rubbish, so I had to wait until I took this photo this weekend. Twilight on Suiderstrand beach on Saturday evening, with the waves gently rolling in onto the pebbles as the sun sank slowly, but surely, into the [...]

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Gorgeous

By 6000 | 6000 | March 11, 2012

From last week’s Flickr Blog.     Beautiful night by Jonina | Photo by SecondaryReality See more via the links above.

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Hello

By 6000 | 6000 | March 10, 2012

I love this live jazz funk fusion cover version of Martin Solveig’s Hello by Laura Vane (previously featured on 6000 miles… here) and the Vipertones for Dutch radio: Fun song. Great energy, great voice. There’s a free download of this version available on soundcloud here, and you can find shedloads more good music and links on the official [...]

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5spesie

By 6000 | 6000 | March 9, 2012

We’re going to pop down to Agulhas again this weekend. Not for any reason other than getting some fresh air and some sunshine and avoiding some cyclists. Actually, I made up that last one, but it’s an excellent added benefit. But it looks like the Agulhas area will also be very busy, because it’s the [...]

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6 months on…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2012

UPDATES in the comments section below. …and a day, because I forgot to post this yesterday. Remember this post, when I suggested that things are slowly but surely falling apart in the City of Cape Town. Well, here’s a good example – a pothole on a shared pavement/cycle path that I reported back on the 7th September last year. [...]

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