Tag Archives: hot

Dead

By 6000 | 6000 | February 5, 2012

Lunchtime football at the height of Cape Town summer has killed me. Almost literally. I’ll be back tomorrow, assuming I make it through the night.

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Calibration is key

By 6000 | 6000 | January 4, 2011

There’s no point in firing off pictures of your car’s thermometer reading (or any other thermometer reading in fact) and just expecting us to believe what it says. For a genuine and accurate measurement, you need a laboratory thermometer calibrated by the Cape Metrology Centre and then you need to pop it outside at ten [...]

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Too much

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2010

I do enjoy summer here in the Cape, but today was too much. My English enzymes can’t cope in these sorts of temperatures and have to be cooled and revived with a special mixture of Castle Milk Stout and Castle Milk Stout. The first four didn’t seem to get through, but after another four I fell into the [...]

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Scorchio!

By 6000 | 6000 | December 8, 2008

Cape Town seems a bit knackered after this weekend. And who can blame it? The hottest weekend of the year sapped the energy and forced people across the city onto beaches and into swimming pools. And they were still too hot. Some of us (me) were additionally “forced” into the pub on Saturday night and onto the [...]

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