Category Archives: the parenting bunny

A few years on

By 6000 | 6000 | March 14, 2010

How time flies when you’re having fun. Or when you’re just getting older, since time is relative and every second makes up a smaller proportion of your lifespan. Which is why you have to get lucky to hit that fly on your Kalahari Kreef. To him, that hand is like watching an episode of Time [...]

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I can do science, me

By 6000 | 6000 | March 12, 2010

Being a scientist myself, I was delighted that Alex’s school was running a science week this week. He’s learnt lots, from the water cycle, through to dissolving salt via something or other with yeast. The finale of the week was today’s Mad Scientist Day, where all the kids came dressed as… well… Mad Scientists. It [...]

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Village population grows

By 6000 | 6000 | February 22, 2010

Damn. While I disappear off 6,137 miles from civilisation, little Mrs Ordinary Life pops her sprog. Obviously, we knew that this was coming, but we weren’t absolutely sure when. But just as dawn was breaking, things happened. And those things were announced to the world just 1 hour and 59 minutes later: Kaylin Elizabeth born at [...]

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Struispost

By 6000 | 6000 | February 20, 2010

Season’s Greetings (mid to late summer) from Struisbaai, home of the southern hemisphere’s longest stretch of white sand beach, a bewilderingly large variety of birdlife and – for this extended weekend, at least – family 6000. I love the Southern Cape – perhaps because the rolling farmland, rugged coastline and friendly residents remind me of [...]

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Darling Daughter

By 6000 | 6000 | February 18, 2010

With Mrs 6000 away in Jo’burg, little K-pu decided to literally throw her toys out of the cot at 3:10am this morning. We didn’t get back to sleep. I’m pretty knackered, as you might imagine, hence this completely inappropriate quota photo of her back in November 2008. The sort of wholly unjustified behaviour she demonstrated last night is really not [...]

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