Category Archives: old posts

More on our ARS

By 6000 | 6000 | August 1, 2007

The sun has shone upon Cape Town this week. And about time too. the four cold fronts which swept through last week gave us floods, gales, thunder and hail. Miserable. I await the figures for the number of caprine casualties with a heavy heart. Regular readers of this site will be all too aware that [...]

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Taking Shorty to the WBHS

By 6000 | 6000 | July 12, 2007

One of the more mundane tasks I do from time to time in my line of work is to travel to another lab nearby and collect specimens for our experiments. This basically involves tipping infected sputum from 240 tubes into… er… 240 more tubes. I’m sure Lizzy M and the other tutors on my Masters [...]

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The Big South African Crime Post

By 6000 | 6000 | July 6, 2007

This post won Runner-Up in the 2008 SA Blog Awards BEST POST category. Wow. What a week. We had the arbitration panel’s report on the Tevez affair, we had the new crime stats released in South Africa and I actually managed to play a game of football for the first time in almost three months, [...]

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Weather woes

By 6000 | 6000 | June 25, 2007

While the weather here in Cape Town has been pretty miserable of late – a succession of cold fronts bringing wind, rain, more wind and more rain to the peninsular, life is no better in the UK. Of course, it’s summer there, so they’d be expecting rain. Add that to the fact that Wimbledon starts [...]

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Da Lowdown

By 6000 | 6000 | June 19, 2007

As my virally-ravaged body continues to exude mucus at an alarming rate, I felt it was time to update the site once again. This is mainly because, although my symptoms have shown a mild improvement since yesterday, I’m still far from convinced that I’ll make it through to the end of the week. I have [...]

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