Category Archives: flickr

CTICC signwriters demand increase

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2008

And who can blame them? Cape Town welcomes The World Congress… Link A conference so dull, it’s guaranteed to put you to sleep. But at least that’s the idea, so it’s still one up on accountancy.

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More diary entries please

By 6000 | 6000 | February 24, 2008

Actually, there wasn’t a “please”. I may be 34 years old, but despite my distance (both physical and chronological) from the family nest, the voice of my mum (now often experienced via email) still carries that air of authority. Apparently, there aren’t enough “diary entries” on 6000 miles… Nor should I be drinking beer during [...]

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It’s a father’s job, right? Wrong.

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2008

Shameless plug 1: My RSS feed is here. Subscribe now! Shameless plug 2: Long overdue pics on my flickr. There are certain things that only a dad can do for his son. Buying him his first razor, teaching him how to shave, driving him to the nearest hospital with a blood bank and so on. Of course, little [...]

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R437 is a poor effort at the Nellie

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2008

From news24: Cape Town – A man who duped a bartender at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town to serve him with liquor to the value of R437, but could not pay for it, was fined R3 000 or six months on a charge of theft on Monday. Dean Jacobs, 43, was also sentenced [...]

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Up the mountain

By 6000 | 6000 | December 30, 2007

“Two out of three ain’t bad”… So fat, sweaty rocker Meatloaf told us back in 1977. He went on to say that he wanted me, he needed me, but there was no way he was ever going to love me. I could have told him that. We went up Table Mountain yesterday evening for sundowners. Sundowners [...]

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