Category Archives: learning curve

It never rains…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 12, 2009

That’s a complete lie. It rained all day today and it also rained a bit yesterday, even though the sun was shining at the same time. Apparently, in the UK this is known as a “sunshower”, although I’ve never heard that expression. Still, I only lived there for 30-odd years. In Cape Town, where the [...]

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Waiting for Mum

By 6000 | 6000 | September 23, 2009

Kids go through stages with regard to their relationship with their parents. Sometimes you can see obvious reasons why this might be; for example, when K-pu was born and had to spend a lot of time with Mum (because she’s the one with the boobs), Alex became firmly (often rather too firmly) attached to me. [...]

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This must be an old map…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 19, 2009

I can’t come on here and attribute this quote to the individual who actually made it, for reasons of personal safety. However, I do feel that it deserves sharing. So here I am, sharing it.  It was while we were viewing a map of South Africa, that my companion remarked: “This must be an old [...]

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Name that bird

By 6000 | 6000 | September 6, 2009

We were down at the Waterfront today, terrorising sealife in the aquarium, watching eco-friendly puppet shows and drinking chocolate milkshakes. While I was enjoying a coffee at the pub [shurely shome mistake?], I spotted this little fellow, who later tried to defaecate on me. Despite consulting Sinclair, Hockey and Tarboton’s Birds of Southern Africa (which, [...]

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Winner!

By 6000 | 6000 | August 26, 2009

News just in – I have won $25,000 in an SMS competition!! That’s serious moolah in SA: R200,000 no less. (Well, actually very slightly less, given that we’re running at $1 = R7.91 this morning, but let’s round it up and be happy.) I don’t actually remember entering the competition in question, but that is [...]

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