Tag Archives: Cape Town

Ah luv Cayep Towan, Me.

By 6000 | 6000 | May 17, 2012

Rumours. Nothing but rumours at the moment. But if they happen to turn into genuine fact, then it seems that Newcastle United could be set to play in Cape Town this winter. Hence the hideous attempt at translating a Geordie accent into text in the title there. Previously, we’ve had Man U (who they?) and [...]

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On lawlessness…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 14, 2012

Timothy left this comment on the blog today: South Africans are LAWLESS. Every day my jaw drops at, in particular, our driving. No indicating, hogging the fast lane, parking anywhere, no servicing and billowing smoke out the back etc etc. I often wonder what goes on (or doesn’t) in these people’s minds. Is it deliberate, [...]

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Rugby or…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 12, 2012

While the rest of Cape Town was glued to Newlands or to their TVs for the start of the Stormers v Cheetahs game, the kids and I were out in the back garden watch the International Space Station flying over the Mother City: This was a 30 second exposure (which means that the streak across [...]

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The other Cape Town fog photo

By 6000 | 6000 | May 9, 2012

While everyone is (rightly) sharing Anelia Loubser’s Cape Town fog photo from last night (that link from her Facebook profile), it seems that there was another individual on the Grassy Knoll we call Signal Hill. His name is Mike Hutchings and here’s what made while he was there: Which was published along with this one here. For [...]

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Up The Junction…

By 6000 | 6000 | April 2, 2012

A trip to Agulhas this weekend abandoned for technical reasons, we took the kids to Ratanga Junction today – and what a day we had. While I hadn’t been to the park as a proper visitor before (I was there for some corporate do back in 2004, but had three prolapsed discs at the time), Mrs [...]

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