Category Archives: uk

Is summer finally coming?

As proven by this weather forecast for Cape Town for the week ahead? Things are looking up. It’s a good sign when even the cloudy days are warm. And I have it on good authority that we may be in for a 29°C scorcha!™ on Sunday. Bring forth my ceremonial braai tongs and slaughter that bloody [...]

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Last of LotSW

I can’t tell you how sad this is for me: The world’s longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine, comes to an end this weekend. In the Yorkshire town where the series is set, fans are preparing to bid farewell to a TV institution. On a soggy afternoon in Holmfirth, the Last of the Summer [...]

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Paul Yarrow is ‘Background Man’

Great story, this – and one that I’m sure you’ll be able to read on 2oceansvibe in the ever so near future. It concerns Paul Yarrow, who seems to be cropping up on British TV an awful lot. Not heard of him? That’s because he’s never credited – he is always DA DA DAHHHHH! Background [...]

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The Last Hurrah

With the World Cup over (feel eet, eet is gone), it’s time to move on to other things and I need a project to keep myself occupied now that there isn’t live football available 24/7 (at least, until the new football seasons start in a couple of weeks). So I’m turning my attention to my [...]

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Take it everywhere

The sage Brian Micklethwait tells us: I try always to take my camera with me whenever I go out, because I never know what interesting thing I will encounter, and because I have a superstitious fear that on the one day when I don’t take my camera with me when I go out, that will be [...]

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