The big cold front which was expected to drop in at about 9pm this evening has – according to the word on the street* – already hit Hout Bay. It’s horrible here were the exact words that were used, prompting me to immediately type (and then tactfully delete) my reply: I know. What’s the weather […]
South Africa is once again demonstrating its neutrality over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This comes just a few days after it was revealed that SA had been following a non-partisan approach by supplying arms and ammunition to Russia. Now we’ve sent the head of the SANDF (the SA armed forces) to Russia to “visit […]
We’ve been waiting for this day for a long while. And now it’s come very suddenly. At 2pm today, I got a call telling me that the solar installers are coming around tomorrow. And they’re going to install some solar. As regular readers of this blog will know, loadshedding is arguably the most dominant force […]
It’s me. That’s who. I’m back. A whistle-stop trip down to Agulhas to get a few jobs done, including that shed. 22 hours arrival to departure, and 12 of them were without power. It gets cold and dark down there with no electricity (and when you haven’t been arsed to light the braai) and the […]
A quick placeholder post which I will update or add to later this evening if I can. 4 hours of loadshedding at the Southern Tip tonight might have other ideas. I don’t want to count chickens, but I’ve singlehandedly almost knocked up a 112kg flatpack shed which even the most conservative of instruction booklets suggested […]