Category Archives: this is south africa

Stairway to Heaven

By 6000 | 6000 | March 13, 2010

The kids were anxious to get to the beach this morning after last weekend’s stupifying temperatures and who were we to deny them, despite the fact it was only 18°C under dreary English grey skies? Clovelly was the beach of choice and Alex’s latest pastime of digging a really big hole in the sand began in earnest, [...]

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Pizza Confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | March 11, 2010

I’m confused. It does happen from time to time, usually over unimportant things like political history and tax regulations. And that happens to the best of us, doesn’t it, Julius?  But this time, it’s altogether more serious. I am confused about pizza. There are several different sorts of pizza eaters and several different types of pizza [...]

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High & mighty prawn in town (just)

By 6000 | 6000 | March 9, 2010

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when the months training done by cyclists on the local roads – free-wheeling through red robots, riding thirteen abreast, not bothering to buy lights, cycling along the freeways etc etc – come to fruition as they get some roads closed for a little while and then get [...]

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Ashanti in World Cup u-turn

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2010

It seems that Ashanti Lodge, whose exorbitant 309% World Cup price increase we noted in January and who still hadn’t sold their rooms for the tournament just a couple of weeks ago, have had to rethink their pricing strategy for June and July. Their rates page now has a little note for the dates over the [...]

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Too much

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2010

I do enjoy summer here in the Cape, but today was too much. My English enzymes can’t cope in these sorts of temperatures and have to be cooled and revived with a special mixture of Castle Milk Stout and Castle Milk Stout. The first four didn’t seem to get through, but after another four I fell into the [...]

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