Tag Archives: flickr

Feeling cheated…?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 27, 2012

I’m told by a usually reliable source that some readers feel cheated when they surf the internet and arrive upon the sandy shores of 6000 miles… only to find that a quota photo. Well… sorry for you. Hectic day in the lab, babysitting this evening, football match tonight. So here’s a sunrise that looks uncannily [...]

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Gorgeous

By 6000 | 6000 | March 11, 2012

From last week’s Flickr Blog.     Beautiful night by Jonina | Photo by SecondaryReality See more via the links above.

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Cheetah seized

By 6000 | 6000 | February 19, 2012

I was browsing the rather bizarre UK Home Office flickr photostream this morning (as you do), when I came across a South African link – namely this cheetah: He looks a little mournful as he was being transported illegally from SA to Russia, when he was detained at Heathrow earlier this year because he wasn’t [...]

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100,000

By 6000 | 6000 | February 10, 2012

Sitting here knocking back a glass of rather decent foot-stomped port from Beaumont in Bot River, I noted (as one does) that I have, at some point over the last few days, passed the 100,000 views mark on my Flickr photostream. With that landmark reached, here’s one I like from the horribly aborted Last Hurrah [...]

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The World is in Cape Town

By 6000 | 6000 | December 29, 2011

It seems that way. Tourist numbers have never been higher [awaits statistic-carrying doom and gloom merchants with evidence to the contrary]. Everywhere is PACKED! For some reason, we decided to take a trip down to the V&A Waterfront yesterday to soak up some of the Christmas spirit, see some fishy stuff, play some cave golf [...]

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