Category Archives: flickr

Weekend summed up

By 6000 | 6000 | February 20, 2012

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and so in an effort to save time and to get to bed sooner than I might otherwise have done, please enjoy the thousand words on our weekend away as depicted by this scene from Struisbaai beach yesterday morning: That’s my girl on the beach, [...]

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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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100,000

By 6000 | 6000 | February 10, 2012

Sitting here knocking back a glass of rather decent foot-stomped port from Beaumont in Bot River, I noted (as one does) that I have, at some point over the last few days, passed the 100,000 views mark on my Flickr photostream. With that landmark reached, here’s one I like from the horribly aborted Last Hurrah [...]

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Pylons

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2012

All weddings should come with [several] Carling Black Labels, some Moer Coffee and a scary looking shooter or eight. It makes you lose your pre-conceptions and langarm to Kurt Darren. Wow – I said that like it was a good thing. Meh – it was fun evening: good food, good company, crap music. After yesterday’s [...]

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London, empty

By 6000 | 6000 | January 8, 2012

On Flickr blog: On Christmas morning IanVisits got up early and took pictures of an almost empty London. And then he wrote about it on his blog: London is never silent, not even at 3am, but on Xmas morning, it is almost silent. The background drone of aircraft approaching Heathrow has gone, and away from main roads, [...]

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