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Bafana Bafana v USA – Photos

As promised here, some few photos of the Nelson Mandela Challenge at the Cape Town Stadium last night, to brighten up your day. And while Cape Town put on a great show, Bafana were less impressive and went down to a (probably undeserved) 1-0 defeat after a 85th minute debut goal from 17 year old [...]

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Gull

Another one from this weekend. Bigger here. And the comment that goes with it (from her): simplicity is more often than not, a thousand times MORE More kind words from Brian Micklethwait as well.

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Out of it

But not in a bad way. We took the time out this weekend to head out into the beautiful Southern Cape,which has rapidly become a firm family favourite for weekend getaways. White sands, turquoise seas and deserted beaches where the kids can play safely and happily, Mum can read her latest crime thriller and Dad can wander about [...]

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Better by tomorrow

After a weekend wracked by Mrs 6000′s tonsillitis and the consequent increased demands on my fathering abilities, I find myself concerningly nursing a sore throat of my own this morning. Both the kids have also been coughing and thus we’re off on another family outing to the doctor this morning. Oh joy. Sore throats are [...]

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Persistent Pyramids

Dreadfully busy, but found this somewhere and quite liked it. Anatoly Zenkov – Persistent Pyramids No explanation as to how this effect is achieved, but I’m guessing it is probably something to do with a temporal distortion in the space-time continuum. If you adapt your flash to fire high energy protons at the breaking waves, [...]

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