Category Archives: positive thoughts

I shall be quiet tomorrow

By 6000 | 6000 | January 5, 2012

That’s because I’m using my last R4 of Vodacom airtime to post this. Tomorrow, back in range, I shall revert to my MTN SIM and contract cellphone usage. And then, tomorrow evening, back in Cape Town, I shall revert to the wonder of broadband internet. Who ever said that this place wasn’t civilised? (Although if [...]

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Pete has a point

By 6000 | 6000 | January 1, 2012

I am here: 34 48.878 S 19 56.390 E http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-34.8,19.93984 Piet se Punt – literally “Pete’s Point” – with just the crashing surf, a few Black Oystercatchers, the battling contrapuntal cello and piano of Ludovico Einaudi and the mad, mad wind for company. Still, this is summer and it’s still shorts and t-shirt weather. It’s [...]

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#Fails

By 6000 | 6000 | December 31, 2011

This year, I have been mostly entertaining myself during quiet moments through the medium of TNL‘s “Fail of the Month” compilations. Unsurprisingly, there is a 2011 compilation version of the 2011 compilations, and it’s pretty funny. Even those readers who don’t usually enjoy the videos and music that I occasionally put on here (their prerogative, [...]

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The World is in Cape Town

By 6000 | 6000 | December 29, 2011

It seems that way. Tourist numbers have never been higher [awaits statistic-carrying doom and gloom merchants with evidence to the contrary]. Everywhere is PACKED! For some reason, we decided to take a trip down to the V&A Waterfront yesterday to soak up some of the Christmas spirit, see some fishy stuff, play some cave golf [...]

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Heads up for dishwashing parents

By 6000 | 6000 | December 28, 2011

Just a quick Public Service Announcement from your genial hosts here at 6000.co.za: Pick & Pay are currently stocking finish powerball™ dishwasher tablets (x30) with a free Madagascar 2 : Escape To Africa DVD included. You can’t use it to wash your dishes, but at R84.95 for the 30 tablets or R84.95 for the 30 [...]

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