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Hometown Prettiness

By 6000 | 6000 | March 5, 2010

While we’re suffering the slings and arrows of the outrageous thirties, the UK has had a horrible, horrible winter. Much of which has been beautifully documented by flickr user karl101. These are two of my favourites, snowy foggy view and ferris with moon, but his whole photostream is well worth a (long) look.

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Wedded bliss

By 6000 | 6000 | February 27, 2010

We’re off to a wedding this afternoon. Attending weddings is becoming a more unusual pastime as most of our friends have already tied the knot already. In fact, I’ve had to have a scroll through Flickr to try and work out when the last one was. It turns out that it was nearly two years ago [...]

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3000 photos from civilisation…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 4, 2010

I have just noticed that I have a total of 3,000 items on my flickr. Cue the celebrations. This image of Alex “doing magic” (his words when he saw the photo) yesterday evening was amongst the upload that got me to 3,000 items. Statpr0n: Of the 3,000 items, 22 are videos and 2,978 are photos, [...]

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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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Bedroom visitor

By 6000 | 6000 | January 14, 2010

Last night, we were visted by (what I think is) a Pompilidae wasp. We see these wasps fairly regularly dragging huge spiders across our garden – it amazing to watch. At first I though the spiders were dead, but not so – just paralysed.  Here’s the story: Spider wasps are long-legged, solitary wasps that use a [...]

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