Category Archives: positive thoughts

When Green is the new cool

By 6000 | 6000 | February 12, 2011

Of course, being environmentally friendly is ever so trendy these day, isn’t it? Tell a Greenie that you don’t recycle and they look at you in the same way that a normal person might if you were something they’d accidentally trodden in at the local park. Mention that you like to eat meat and you might as [...]

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Fat

By 6000 | 6000 | January 29, 2011

You’re looking a bit chunky right now. There. I said it. Someone had to. Fact is, we’ve all been pussy-footing around you for a few weeks now, wondering how best to let you know that you put on a few extra kilos over the festive season. And that they’re still with you. There. And there. [...]

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7 Up

By 6000 | 6000 | January 23, 2011

Not the sugary carbonated “lemon” drink. That would be a ridiculous subject for a blog post. Although, as I’ve always said: “When life throws you E128 and E204, make 7-Up”. But no, today marks the day seven years ago that I arrived in South Africa and began my role as the country’s favourite import. It’s a [...]

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Nearly done

By 6000 | 6000 | January 22, 2011

Some of my readers – those with better memories – may recall this post from 2nd November last year, wherein I described how we had purchased a little plot deep in the Southern Cape and were intending to put a tiny fisherman’s cottage on it. Well, away from prying Cape Town eyes and despite the summer break, [...]

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The Return of the Double Header

By 6000 | 6000 | January 14, 2011

Twice the fun – well, sort of. Football Friday returns to Cape Town tonight with the PSL Double Header at the Cape Town Stadium: Vasco da Gama v Supersport United at 6:00pm and Ajax Cape Town v Kaizer Chiefs at 8:45pm and which is expected to get a crowd of forty… forty-five thousand. I’m quite [...]

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