Category Archives: flickr

3000 photos from civilisation…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2010

I have just noticed that I have a total of 3,000 items on my flickr. Cue the celebrations. This image of Alex “doing magic” (his words when he saw the photo) yesterday evening was amongst the upload that got me to 3,000 items. Statpr0n: Of the 3,000 items, 22 are videos and 2,978 are photos, [...]

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Real Mountain

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2010

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: while Table Mountain is the iconic Cape Town landmark, Devils Peak is by far the most charismatic of the Cape Town mountains. It looks like a proper mountain whichever side you view it from – it’s got a pointy top and the view from up there must be spectacular. [...]

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Cape Town Stadium: Truly Magnificent

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2010

As promised, I can say I was there at the first ever football match played at Cape Town’s 2010 World Cup stadium. And what an experience. As ever, a big football match in the Mother City brought out the true spirit of the Rainbow Nation – every colour, every age – all just there to [...]

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Busy Day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 23, 2010

Today always promised to be a hectic day – from appointments in the morning, lunch with football friends and an afternoon at the Stadium through to the fancy dress party in the evening. Hence I am utilising the somewhat risky, but very helpful “scheduled post” option on WordPress. And I’m giving you a quota photo of the all-new, [...]

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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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