Category Archives: learning curve

Gardening advice from Peter Shardlow

By 6000 | 6000 | October 13, 2011

Today’s bit of gardening advice comes from Peter Shardlow of Kirstenhof, courtesy of his letter to the October issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. Hey, it’s Nature While the topic is being prioritised, let me add my contribution to the “Go green” campaign. If you have a bougainvillea that is struggling or not flowering, don’t waste time with [...]

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Census 2011: Get informed

By 6000 | 6000 | October 11, 2011

Lots of panicky, kneejerk comment on the story that criminals posing as census officials robbed a house in Kensington, Johannesburg yesterday, but blaming the real census officials for this is like blaming FNB for sending phishing emails. Reading the report: “Symons said the doorbell rang and two men in green jackets told him over the [...]

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Mountain Biker gets taken out by buck

By 6000 | 6000 | October 10, 2011

Does exactly what it says on the tin: Says YouTube user mscmcc: Mountain Biker, Evan van der Spuy of Team Jeep South Africa got taken out by a RED HARTEBEES at amountain bike race at Albert Falls Dam. Check out this crazy footage which was taken by team mate Travis Walker on his GoPro Camera [...]

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Wild Life

By 6000 | 6000 | October 10, 2011

Wow. I need a weekend to recover from the weekend I just had. The hard work and investment of time, effort and money just seems so worth it after a fantastic family weekend which we shared with tortoises, goose barnacles, caterpillars (Cape Lappet moth and TBI Pine emperor moth), stick insects and even a puff [...]

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Ten Years

By 6000 | 6000 | October 7, 2011

I remember going and watching some comedy festival or other soon after I arrived in SA back in 2004. One of the British comics there was poking fun at the low cost of living here and the favourable exchange rate, tying it in to a sign he’d seen near Cape Town: Please Do Not Feed [...]

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