Category Archives: world cup 2010

Welcome back!

By 6000 | 6000 | July 3, 2008

What with one thing and another, I haven’t been able to turn out for my football team – at least not in a playing capacity – for over three months. So, it was with some trepidation and a level of fitness one might expect of an average American teenager that I made my return in for the black and [...]

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Not in Kansas anymore

By 6000 | 6000 | June 20, 2008

UPDATE: Looking for pictures of the 30-31st August 2008 storm? Try here! As I stared, bleary-eyed, out of the bedroom window into the cold and dark of the Cape Town morning, I was once again blown away by the sight of the lights of Muizenberg glittering on the ocean. What a view. Despite the atrocious [...]

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South Africa’s Electricity Crisis – Update

By 6000 | 6000 | April 2, 2008

My South Africa’s Electricity Crisis post has turned out to be one of the more popular ones on this site, so with there being significant developments in the ongoing saga, I thought I’d update you, the 6000 miles… reading public, with the latest news. As from Monday, we now have pre-emptive load shedding. Which means [...]

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Out of the frying pan

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2008

Once again, Eskom is to blame. Newlands got load-shod mid-afternoon and the traffic lights on the M3 never really recovered. It was all a bit of a mess and I joined the queue by the Aquarium. At this point, anyone that knows Cape Town thinks I’m lying. I wish I was. But no, my journey home from [...]

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Why are you still here?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2008

No, dear readers. This isn’t a question for you.  We all know why you’re still here. It’s the almost ethereal, magical, magnetic attraction of the prose you read on these pages. It’s a completely understandable and excusable addiction. No, this was a question I was asked by the Molton Brown Boys over a particularly tasty curry at Bihari last [...]

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