Tag Archives: Cape Town

The Pick n Pay Cycle Tour Coffee Table Book post

By 6000 | 6000 | September 14, 2011

This all started with a comment on a post here a few weeks back. The comment was unrelated to the post in question and it had the commenter’s cellphone number on it, so I didn’t publish it. It was merely a means of making contact with me [you can do that by email here]. Here’s [...]

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Some good service

By 6000 | 6000 | September 8, 2011

Sadly, SA is not noted for its customer service. Or rather, it is, but not in a good way. That’s why when I have some good customer service, I like to tell people about it. And this week has been a revelation in what other countries would call “service”, but what we here in SA [...]

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Tori Amos in Cape Town, Joburg – November 2011

By 6000 | 6000 | September 5, 2011

Much excitement last night as someone (@frantaljaard?) while (presumably) searching “Tori Amos” and “Concert” and “South Africa” and “November” on Google, discovered that Tori Amos is due to perform some concerts in South Africa in November as part of her Night Of Hunters tour. Isn’t Google amazing? The dates currently held are Saturday and Sunday 12th & [...]

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0834319513

By 6000 | 6000 | August 30, 2011

I’ve mentioned before that I don’t think that hanging bog roll from trees in Cape Town is art. I’m not really sure that the 0834319513 “interactive social project” is art either, but at least they provide a bit of a laugh to Cape Town drivers and they clean up after themselves. This one seemed particularly [...]

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I can dream

By 6000 | 6000 | August 26, 2011

Stuck as I am in a hospital bed (or, if things have gone horribly awry, a mortuary fridge) in the land-locked southern suburbs, I am probably unable to enjoy a nice sea view out of the window (there are no windows in a fridge). So, I’ll probably be mostly dreaming of getting out and about again [...]

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