Category Archives: quota photo

Signs of the times

By 6000 | 6000 | March 20, 2010

Since I’m stuck in the house with a small girl who is engrossed in Barbie presents Thumbelina for the 1000th time, I thought I’d chuck up a couple of quota photos. And today’s theme is road signs. There are so many new signs going up around the city as part of the infrastructure upgrades for the [...]

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New style airbag “will save lives”

By 6000 | 6000 | March 10, 2010

After seeing the aftermath of a pretty nasty accident outside the towing firm near our lab: …I was delighted to learn that a new organic airbag is being installed on BMW cars. Good thinking.

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Early morning…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 2, 2010

I pulled back the bedroom curtain this morning to reveal a beautiful peachy cloud-topped Table Mountain, glorious blue skies and a moon handily placed so as to balance the left hand side of the vista. It seemed rude not to share. Must get those trees trimmed… Bigger here.

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Darling Daughter

By 6000 | 6000 | February 18, 2010

With Mrs 6000 away in Jo’burg, little K-pu decided to literally throw her toys out of the cot at 3:10am this morning. We didn’t get back to sleep. I’m pretty knackered, as you might imagine, hence this completely inappropriate quota photo of her back in November 2008. The sort of wholly unjustified behaviour she demonstrated last night is really not [...]

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Real Mountain

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2010

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: while Table Mountain is the iconic Cape Town landmark, Devils Peak is by far the most charismatic of the Cape Town mountains. It looks like a proper mountain whichever side you view it from – it’s got a pointy top and the view from up there must be spectacular. [...]

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