Category Archives: from the blogroll

Zebra & Giraffe – The Knife

By 6000 | 6000 | April 22, 2009

I have been listening to a lot of Zebra & Giraffe recently, possibly due to their fantastic performance at CokeZeroFest. This is a great example of their New Order meets The Cure at a local pub and a young Depeche Mode drop in and join them both for a swift Red Bull or two before heading off [...]

4 Comments | Tagged |Also posted in music, this is south africa

Good luck Pammie!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 3, 2009

While I’m not lazing in bed on Sunday, 6000 miles…regular and blogrollee, Ordinary Life (aka Pamie Jane), will be spending (she hopes) around 14½ hours swimming, cycling and running around and around the sleepy village of Port Elizabeth in the Ironman South Africa triathlon. For those of you who are wondering, that’s: 3.8km swim (through shark-infested [...]

4 Comments | Tagged , , |Also posted in sport, that's a bit mad, this is south africa

SA Blog Awards Update

By 6000 | 6000 | March 21, 2009

Well, many thanks to both of you loyal readers who nominated me in the 2009 SA Blog Awards. Because of the time and effort you put in (4 clicks and an anti-spam code, I think it was) together with the large lump of cash that I sent through to Glenn Agliotti (no – he’s not [...]

11 Comments | Tagged , , , , |Also posted in admin, elections, positive thoughts, this is south africa

Today: a summary

By 6000 | 6000 | March 19, 2009

No one particular subject has dominated my mind or time today, save for the post I was going to do about waking up with Madonna and Billy Joel. Not on the radio or on the TV – literally waking up with them. In my bed.  I have no idea what they were doing in there. [...]

2 Comments | Tagged , , , , |Also posted in annoying people, in the news, politics, that's a bit mad

Swings and Roundabouts

By 6000 | 6000 | March 2, 2009

Or rather, Roundabouts and Swings Said he “the job’s the very spit of what it always were, “It’s bread and bacon mostly when the dog don’t catch a hare, “But looking at it broad, and while it ain’t no merchant kings, “What’s lost upon the roundabouts, we pulls up on the swings.” Roundabouts and Swings [...]

3 Comments | Tagged |Also posted in annoying people, positive thoughts, sheffield, sport
myScoop