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Pylons

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2012

All weddings should come with [several] Carling Black Labels, some Moer Coffee and a scary looking shooter or eight. It makes you lose your pre-conceptions and langarm to Kurt Darren. Wow – I said that like it was a good thing. Meh – it was fun evening: good food, good company, crap music. After yesterday’s [...]

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Road trip

By 6000 | 6000 | January 14, 2012

Such a welcome sight! When your wife takes you to a wedding in Langebaan but only puts enough fuel in her car to get you halfway. That, my friends, was tight. Viva, Shell. Viva!

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When rules are ignored…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2012

I really don’t want this topic to become a theme for 2012. I thought we’d covered it enough in 2011. Why do some people think that rules apply to other people and not to them? Yes, we’ve seen Cyclists, Parking, Seatbelts, Cellphones, Whaleways - and now it’s dog owners. You only have to go walking in Tokai [...]

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Excellent Quiz Question

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2012

As heard yesterday evening on Cape Talk – here’s one for you: There are four countries in the world which end in a letter which no other country does. Can you name them? For clarification, none of them are Canada – that’s because Canada ends in an A and other countries names also end in [...]

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H&S – African style

By 6000 | 6000 | January 12, 2012

The ‘Elf an’ Safety people in the UK (who are not actually as bad as Jeremy Clarkson and the Daily Mail would have you believe) would have a cadenza if they saw this on a building site over there. In this image, you can gauge ground level from the guy in the bottom right corner of the [...]

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