Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

Arr (my eyes) Jim Lad

By 6000 | 6000 | January 10, 2011

I guess that in 2011, few people would have thought that pirates still roamed the seven seas. Piracy was something from 300 years ago,with Captain Blackbeard and Long John Silver. Yet we have well documented cases all around the dodgy bit up the east coast of Africa. And sometimes beyond Durban as well. Equally, we’re [...]

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Altruism

By 6000 | 6000 | January 5, 2011

Altruism: Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism focuses on a motivation to help others or a want to do good without reward. And today, I have a couple of examples of this selfless concern for you. Firstly: me. I gave my worms the once over this evening. Concerned (selflessly so) for their welfare [...]

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The Soutpiel conundrum

By 6000 | 6000 | December 15, 2010

I get called a lot of names because of this blog. Some are nice, but probably most are not. The less pleasant ones dribble limply into the metaphorical pond, like water off a duck’s back. But there’s one which is fairly regularly used each and every time I make any criticism of South Africa (that being the [...]

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Fish & Dragons

By 6000 | 6000 | December 7, 2010

Sorry, the missus has just waved her fingernails under my nose, having just painted them with a range of volatile compounds, and I now find myself ducking to avoid the salmon leaping across the sofa and the dragons which are picking them off in mid air, in a style not unreminiscent of a cross between [...]

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Maybe tomorrow

By 6000 | 6000 | December 5, 2010

I was thinking that I might go to a small town somewhere between Lehututu and the A2 in Botswana today, but actually, I really can’t be bothered. Maybe tomorrow.

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