Tag Archives: new year

Busy Times

By 6000 | 6000 | December 31, 2012

Cape Agulhas is packed. Full of people from all over the country – I have seen cars from each of the nine provinces and I haven’t even left my bedroom this morning. Intersections which usually don’t see more a couple of cars each hour have actual queues at them – sometimes as many as 3 [...]

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Notes on celebration

By 6000 | 6000 | January 1, 2011

Many people will be waking up this morning with stinking hangovers, but not me. We’ve effectively written off New Year’s Eve for a few years by having kids. Too much hassle, too much money (have you seen babysitter rates recently?) and it’s not like there won’t be New Years Eves when we’re ready and able [...]

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Hello 2010

By 6000 | 6000 | January 1, 2010

I was busy braai’ing as the sun set on 2009 and – thanks to a couple of wonderful, near-textbook examples of the always enjoyable pavor nocturnus – I was busy playing catch-up on my sleep as it rose again on 2010. Fortunately, there are a band of willing photographers who don’t seem to require quite as much [...]

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