Tag Archives: emigration

Searching, for that something that I’ll never find…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

(with apologies to China Black) Just occasionally, I check to see what serach terms have been used to find 6000 miles… over the last few weeks. They’re usually pretty obvious – this time there was a lot of stuff about load-shedding, that concert “next year”, the inevitable weeing on your bougainvillea and, as ever, some [...]

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Sacrificial anode

By 6000 | 6000 | January 25, 2011

It seems that I have been acting as a sacrificial anode. Of sorts. If you don’t know what a sacrificial anode is, allow me to enlighten you: A galvanic anode is the main component of a galvanic cathodic protection (CP) system used to protect buried or submerged metal structures from corrosion. They are made from [...]

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7 Up

By 6000 | 6000 | January 23, 2011

Not the sugary carbonated “lemon” drink. That would be a ridiculous subject for a blog post. Although, as I’ve always said: “When life throws you E128 and E204, make 7-Up”. But no, today marks the day seven years ago that I arrived in South Africa and began my role as the country’s favourite import. It’s a [...]

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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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Yes, it’s different here

By 6000 | 6000 | December 27, 2007

“Proper Christmas” just doesn’t work in South Africa. I tried to point this fact out in the article I wrote for the December issue of Emigrate2 magazine. There are plenty of reasons for this, but here’s the biggie: it’s the middle of bloody summer. So: no chance of snow, it’s hot, it’s light, it’s bright and [...]

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