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Heart v Head

By 6000 | 6000 | June 16, 2011

I desperately want(ed) to get down to the coast this weekend. The weather this week has been atrocious (once we’d got past Tuesday with its ridiculous midwinter 30 degreedness) and the wind has whipped up some epic swells around the South African coast. The weather service were warning of 7m off Agulhas. Yummy. I love [...]

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I’m just a boy who can’t say no.

By 6000 | 6000 | June 6, 2011

My kids are unwell. Scoop has an ear infection and Alex has a throat infection. Nothing uncommon about that during this wintery weather, and their antibiotics should sort them out sharpish. And while Scoop has been a little bit snotty for a while, Alex’s throat – and the associated symptoms – came on quite suddenly [...]

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Bit shaky

By 6000 | 6000 | May 29, 2011

It’s been distinctly wintery in Cape Town this weekend. I’m a bit shaky, since a quick trip down to Agulhas proved no escape and upon our return, I somehow, somehow found myself at the Good Food and Wine Show at the CTICC. This probably doesn’t sound too bad to most people, but we were really [...]

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Flying high

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2011

It’s been another manic weekend here at Chez 6000. The last of my regulation energy expired on Wynberg School field a few hours back and I’m definitely well through my reserve tanks now. My boy (though now asleep) enjoyed his weekend to the fullest, and so this quota photo on him hanging in mid-air during [...]

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Five

By 6000 | 6000 | April 25, 2011

My little boy is not so little any more. Today is his fifth birthday and that long, dark, chilly day at Cape Town Medi-Clinic seems a long long way back. We’re very lucky to have such a great son and his sister is very lucky to have such a loving big brother. I guess that [...]

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