Category Archives: this is south africa

Proceeding well

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2011

It’s back to school for many South African kids this week. Not for Alex and his friends in Cape Town, of course. As ever, the Mother City is a little slow to catch up and our lot only go back next week, but Gauteng and the inland provinces are back already. And how. Stories of [...]

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Funny Man

By 6000 | 6000 | January 9, 2011

Another long day, another tired me, another late post. In filling my weekends with housework and family time, I not only miss the opportunity to blog, but also the opportunity to keep up with what’s going on in the world – and the blog fodder that the news provides. This is an issue, so I [...]

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Quota sunset No.38

By 6000 | 6000 | January 8, 2011

Mowing lawns, laying pavers, feeding worms, watching disappointing FA Cup football, ironing, braaiing and swimming. Tomorrow is going to bring a whole new world of pain. And thus, you’re getting this quota photo, taken at Llandudno last month. As the post title suggests, this isn’t the first time I’ve done this. It’s not bad though, is [...]

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Too close to home

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2011

Several emails and tweets asking why I am not blogging about the Luke Fairweather story. It’s a reasonable question. Thanks for asking. Occasionally  - just occasionally – there are topics which I would LOVE to blog about, but am unable to. These are generally specific and local issues which are linked somehow to what we [...]

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Calibration is key

By 6000 | 6000 | January 4, 2011

There’s no point in firing off pictures of your car’s thermometer reading (or any other thermometer reading in fact) and just expecting us to believe what it says. For a genuine and accurate measurement, you need a laboratory thermometer calibrated by the Cape Metrology Centre and then you need to pop it outside at ten [...]

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