Category Archives: emigration

Half A World Away

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2012

On the day the UK’s clocks went forward – which always makes it seem closer – and the temperatures in Cape Town were a mere 5C warmer than Sheffield, there were also a couple of similar poses on display in the respective cities:         That’s me watching the boy swim and my Dad enjoying [...]

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Cheetah seized

By 6000 | 6000 | February 19, 2012

I was browsing the rather bizarre UK Home Office flickr photostream this morning (as you do), when I came across a South African link – namely this cheetah: He looks a little mournful as he was being transported illegally from SA to Russia, when he was detained at Heathrow earlier this year because he wasn’t [...]

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The Worst Idea Larry Ever Had™

By 6000 | 6000 | February 6, 2012

When you move your entire life 6000 miles… from home, it can be a bit of a wrench. And that’s putting it mildly. Uprooting yourself and everything else from all that is near, dear and known to you and transplanting it to somewhere way, way out of your comfort zone is no fun – despite [...]

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Africa stats

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2012

Bit short of time today, so here’s a photo of the front cover of a calendar from KPMG. 60% of world cocoa production, 20% of global gold production and shedloads of shale gas. What’s not to like? (apart perhaps for that 3% of global GDP figure…)

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It’s all kicking off…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2011

Ah. The perils of supporting England in the Rugby World Cup. Actually, there really aren’t very many of them. It isn’t that important to me: after all, this is just rugby, it’s not football. But there’s always someone that suggests that because I’ve moved to SA, I must support the Boks. Yeah right, because when [...]

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