Category Archives: learning curve

First week nerves

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2012

The first week back at school has gone swimmingly for the boy. But then he finds himself in familiar surroundings surrounded by familiar people. Monday was Scoop’s first day at “big school”. Before and even during arrival at school, she was excited and upbeat. I captured this as she lined up for the first time, [...]

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Red Hot Chili Peppers in South Africa in 2013

By 6000 | 6000 | January 20, 2012

Yes, apparently this time the rumours might be true: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to tour South Africa (ie. visit Joburg and Cape Town) in 2013. We’ve all heard that the Chilis will be playing in South Africa in 2010 before the World Cup and in 2010 after the World Cup and that [...]

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Poor choice

By 6000 | 6000 | January 17, 2012

Back in December when we arranged the repairs to the pool and the pool area, the weather was pretty rubbish in Cape Town. But we couldn’t have foreseen that we’d choose to have it done during the hottest week in living memory. It’s a job that has to be done during the summer months, because [...]

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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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Excellent Quiz Question

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2012

As heard yesterday evening on Cape Talk – here’s one for you: There are four countries in the world which end in a letter which no other country does. Can you name them? For clarification, none of them are Canada – that’s because Canada ends in an A and other countries names also end in [...]

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