Category Archives: positive thoughts

Morten Harket 1959-2009

By 6000 | 6000 | September 14, 2009

…and beyond, I hope. But at least I got your attention. Yes, Morten Harket, lead singer of Norwegian synth-pop supergroup a-ha turns 50 today. And what better way to mark the occasion on 6000 miles… that the ground-breakingly brilliant video for their 1985 hit, Take on Me: Amazing to think that this was 24 years ago [...]

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Here’s proof

By 6000 | 6000 | September 12, 2009

Herewith proof that you can write a perfectly acceptable blog post (IMHO, anyway) while cooking a rather tasty chili con carne. The carne in question being beef and ostrich. I can like to be supporting the local cow and bird slaughtering industries. The builders are still here and the internet is still almost completely unavailable, the [...]

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Quick but important…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2009

Having just arrived home after a hellish day, I find that I have a hellish evening in front of me. Although I wanted to blog about Justice Malala’s column in The Times this morning, I have to empty the old study completely this evening so that it can be converted into a playroom for the [...]

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Imaginative

By 6000 | 6000 | September 4, 2009

With the kick off of the 2010 World Cup just 279 days away, the Green Point Stadium in Green Point seems set to be renamed. Originally, the name mooted was the African Renaissance Stadium, but who wants to play football in an ARS? Thus, the Cape Town City Council have proposed that the new name for the [...]

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The Killers tickets “sold out”

By 6000 | 6000 | August 28, 2009

Golden Circle tickets for The Killers’ Jo’burg concert at the Coca-Cola Dome on Friday 4th December have sold out – barely two hours after officially going on sale. Recession? What recession? However, at the time of writing, Golden Circle tickets for the Cape Town concert on the 6th at the Val de Vie Polo Estate are still available. [...]

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