Category Archives: emigration

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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Stellenbosch Hills Biltong & Droewors Adventure

By 6000 | 6000 | February 23, 2011

This sounds like it could be fun. Step forward PG Slabbert – winemaker and manager at Stellenbosch Hills: Stellenbosch Hills is the first cellar to combine two proudly South African delights with their Biltong & Droëwors Adventure to be enjoyed in the cellar door. The art of drying meat nowadays is as specialised as the [...]

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Sacrificial anode

By 6000 | 6000 | January 25, 2011

It seems that I have been acting as a sacrificial anode. Of sorts. If you don’t know what a sacrificial anode is, allow me to enlighten you: A galvanic anode is the main component of a galvanic cathodic protection (CP) system used to protect buried or submerged metal structures from corrosion. They are made from [...]

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