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On lawlessness…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 14, 2012

Timothy left this comment on the blog today: South Africans are LAWLESS. Every day my jaw drops at, in particular, our driving. No indicating, hogging the fast lane, parking anywhere, no servicing and billowing smoke out the back etc etc. I often wonder what goes on (or doesn’t) in these people’s minds. Is it deliberate, [...]

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Thanks Jamie

By 6000 | 6000 | May 13, 2012

Cooking blogs are all the rage and who am I not to jump on the bandwagon? Having decided to “invite” Mrs 6k and her mother around for Mother’s Day lunch, I asked what I should cook for them. My wife thought for a moment and then said that she would prefer something “not too fancy” [...]

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Rugby or…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 12, 2012

While the rest of Cape Town was glued to Newlands or to their TVs for the start of the Stormers v Cheetahs game, the kids and I were out in the back garden watch the International Space Station flying over the Mother City: This was a 30 second exposure (which means that the streak across [...]

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Running Doula has ‘horizontal’ catchup with Aussie blogger

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2012

The mother of all Freudian slips ensues as Running Doula “catches up” with old friend and Saffa/Aussie blogger Delboy in Melbourne. Always good to see someone managing to deal with apparent food-poisoning long enough to have fun with her friends. Please note Melinda’s (almost) immediate response to her error: “VERTICAL!! I meant vertical!”. Of course you did, love.

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Madonsela ‘concerned’ as DA requests run dry

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2012

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was said to have been “hugely concerned” by an apparent halt in requests from the Democratic Alliance for her office to investigate anything and everything to do with anything and everything. A spokesperson for the Office of the Public Protector stated: Ms Madonsela stated her concern to colleagues that there had [...]

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