Category Archives: flickr

The World is in Cape Town

By 6000 | 6000 | December 29, 2011

It seems that way. Tourist numbers have never been higher [awaits statistic-carrying doom and gloom merchants with evidence to the contrary]. Everywhere is PACKED! For some reason, we decided to take a trip down to the V&A Waterfront yesterday to soak up some of the Christmas spirit, see some fishy stuff, play some cave golf [...]

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Away

By 6000 | 6000 | December 21, 2011

Yep. I know. I’ve been scarce. And I have absolutely no excuse, save for the glorious sunshine and the glorious beach (literally) a stone’s throw from the front door. There’s copious alcohol available as well, which has led to some late nights under the stars, far from the madding crowds and maddening light pollution of [...]

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Party time

By 6000 | 6000 | December 12, 2011

You’re probably here looking for photographs of regular 6000 miles… reader Robyn’s 40th birthday party, and who am I to disappoint? Please enjoy this slideshow of a great evening.   You may note that the quality of the images decreases steadily as more tequila is added to the photographer. This all happened on Saturday evening. [...]

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Exploding wind turbine

By 6000 | 6000 | December 8, 2011

The recent wintery weather that has battered Scotland (see these pictures on the BBC News website) led to a wind turbine at the Ardrossan Wind Farm bursting into flames. A small amount of detective work led me to more photos as part of this flickr set. Oooh – I bet Paternoster simply can’t wait!

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Thinned sunset goodness

By 6000 | 6000 | December 1, 2011

Still no time to blog, but it’s for all mainly the right reasons, so that’s ok. I got a few great pics of sunsets while we were away this last weekend. Here’s one of them optimised for quota photo usage: The original is here and there are more sunsets and other stuff in my November [...]

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