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By 6000 | 6000 | January 26, 2012

15 days on from the incident and shamed “shaman” James Lech still hasn’t released his statement detailing his version of events when of the dogs he was walking illegally on Clifton beach attacked a two-year old girl. A post on his blog from 20th January states: We are still awaiting information from 3rd parties. It [...]

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Horses To Be Banned From Fashion Show “By 2014″

By 6000 | 6000 | January 26, 2012

Organisers of the J&B Met Fashion Parade today announced that horses were to be phased out of the event over the next two years. Horses have been an integral part of the glitzy annual show, held in Kenilworth, Cape Town since 1883, but management have now decreed that they are supplementary to requirements and will [...]

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Northern Lights

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

Just to share this image of the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire (the highest pub in Britain) and the Aurora Borealis, due to the Solar Flare which also permanently disabled my toaster earlier this afternoon. You might like to look at the Aurora Sky Station Live Camera from Sweden, which is producing some amazing [...]

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Searching, for that something that I’ll never find…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

(with apologies to China Black) Just occasionally, I check to see what serach terms have been used to find 6000 miles… over the last few weeks. They’re usually pretty obvious – this time there was a lot of stuff about load-shedding, that concert “next year”, the inevitable weeing on your bougainvillea and, as ever, some [...]

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