Category Archives: 6000 recommends

Great wine

Incoming from Getwine: In the nearly seven years of Getwine’s existence we have had some fantastic flagship unlabelled wines from farms such as Rustenberg, Saxenburg, Buitenverwachting, Morgenhof, Delaire and many more. These top wines come and unfortunately also go, for example the Asara Ebony that we recently sold the last bottle of. But like I [...]

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Bistro vs Brasserie

We had a really good MBCC meal out at Societi Brasserie in Tokai last night, where the Tall Accountant poured himself this particularly spectacular glass of beer. I would particularly recommend their mackerel pâte with spicy chutney and the wonderfully-cooked filet au poivre. One question that did arise, however, was around the difference between a Bistro and a Brasserie, given that [...]

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$aving

A couple of weeks ago, Eskom warned us that we were once teetering on the edge of load-shedding (aka “rolling blackouts”) and that we must try to save as much electricity as possible to prevent this. People see this as counter-intuitive coming from the people who generate our electricity and therefore make more money when [...]

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Free Music

Regular readers may recall a post towards the end of last year celebrating the news of a new Apparatjik album to be released early in 2012. The good news is that the latest versions (draft 6) of the album tracks are now available for listenage and downloading on Facebook. It’s still got that 80′s electronica feel, [...]

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Moerse Farm Stall, Napier (& more)

We decided that since we had the time and inclination, we would stop at some of the places we never stop at en route to and from the cottage while on our way back to Cape Town today. Top of the list was the Moerse Farm Stall in Napier, which regularly almost entices us with [...]

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