Tag Archives: Cape Town

The Perfect Storm?

By 6000 | 6000 | August 31, 2008

It’s Spring Day tomorrow in South Africa. The unofficial start of the good weather that will last through until next July, allowing us to enjoy braais, beers by the pool and some dreadful home performances by the nation’s cricket team. But winter had one last throw of the dice and scored a lucky 7 with [...]

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Plans for the Koeberg Interchange

By 6000 | 6000 | August 18, 2008

One of my more popular posts is the one where I describe the roadworks taking place on two of the major routes around Cape Town. I don’t know what this says about how interesting this blog is, or indeed how interesting its readers are. All in all, it’s pretty disappointing. Anyway, at the time that [...]

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Brian and his failing neighbourhood

By 6000 | 6000 | August 14, 2008

One of the few sites I unfailingly enjoy reading is Brian Micklethwait’s eponymous blog. It has a unique combination of a blend of subjects and topics that generally interest me, together with an endearing, informal, almost narrative writing style. It’s easy, interesting, pleasurable reading. However, even by his usual high standards, I felt that Brian excelled himself earlier this week. And I would have written [...]

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Not like this…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 9, 2008

Sorry for the lack of action on 6000 miles… recently. I’ve had a very sick child, a very pregnant wife and a very lot of rain falling through our kitchen to deal with. You’ve got to love this “life” thing. Talking of the weather, I’m getting a little fed up of people coming up to [...]

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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 [...]

10 Comments | Also tagged | Posted in sport, this is south africa, world cup 2010
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