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Wet excuse

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2012

Apologies for the continued lack of action here. We’re been test driving the newly refurbished pool. As you can see, it’s been incredibly hard work.

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Africa stats

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2012

Bit short of time today, so here’s a photo of the front cover of a calendar from KPMG. 60% of world cocoa production, 20% of global gold production and shedloads of shale gas. What’s not to like? (apart perhaps for that 3% of global GDP figure…)

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Beacon

By 6000 | 6000 | February 2, 2012

The Inukshuk is a rudimentary communication system used by the Inuit people in North America to mark routes and as a symbol of reassurance for travellers: They are monuments made of unworked stones that are used by the Inuit people for communication and survival. The traditional meaning of the Inukshuk is “Someone was here” or “You [...]

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Pylons

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2012

All weddings should come with [several] Carling Black Labels, some Moer Coffee and a scary looking shooter or eight. It makes you lose your pre-conceptions and langarm to Kurt Darren. Wow – I said that like it was a good thing. Meh – it was fun evening: good food, good company, crap music. After yesterday’s [...]

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Sunset at the shipwreck

By 6000 | 6000 | January 4, 2012

When in Rome, do as the Romans. When in Agulhas, do sundowners at the shipwreck. Got it? The Meisho Maru 38 ran aground between Suiderstrand and Cape Agulhas on 16 November 1982. Since then, it’s been slowly breaking up, and the bow now sits proudly on the shoreline near the Southernmost point, acting as a [...]

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