Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

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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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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Not looking twice…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

Oh dear. The DA Student Organisation have launched a new poster campaign – “in OUR future, you wouldn’t look twice” – and SA has gone utterly mental over the first release. The general reaction has been rather depressing to read, from accusations that it is racist, to complaints that the poster promotes sex, to terrifying [...]

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Poor choice

By 6000 | 6000 | January 17, 2012

Back in December when we arranged the repairs to the pool and the pool area, the weather was pretty rubbish in Cape Town. But we couldn’t have foreseen that we’d choose to have it done during the hottest week in living memory. It’s a job that has to be done during the summer months, because [...]

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The Dangers of Raw Fennel & Almond Salad

By 6000 | 6000 | January 16, 2012

Tune into James Lech’s blog today and there is a recipe for a Raw Fennel & Almond Salad. James, lest we forget, is not only ”Africa’s #1 Dog Whisperer”, with powers that don’t include stopping his dogs from attacking young children, he also follows a vegan diet (as do his dogs). While there’s plenty of evidence [...]

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