Category Archives: this is south africa

Insurance Guy forgets how to drive…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 27, 2011

Got to travel 87km? Of course you have – we’ve all done it at some point in our lives. We jump into our cars or – if we’re living somewhere with public transport – we jump on a bus or a train. It’ll probably take about an hour, generally speaking. Not the Insurance Guy though. [...]

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Photography question

By 6000 | 6000 | May 26, 2011

You know how it is. You spend all evening relaxing at home with only a sick wife, a chicken madras and the Arctic Monkeys for company (more on them soon) and then it (not the wife, this time) suddenly strikes you that you haven’t blogged today. And today is one of those days when I’d actually [...]

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So close…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 21, 2011

I’m getting a little tired of writing hard luck football stories: England, Sheffield United, Sheffield United, Sheffi… look – you get my point, right? But here’s another hard luck football story anyway. It concerns local boys Ajax Cape Town, who, thanks to the wonder of mathematics, were guaranteed the PSL title should they beat Maritzburg [...]

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Shhh…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 20, 2011

Well, I think that this says it all: Yes, it would seem that less one in every thousand people want the Cape to be turned into France. And who can blame the other 999.1 people who think that it’s a terrible idea? Now, I’m not a bad loser – not ever – but it does [...]

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