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Quota gecko

By 6000 | 6000 | April 23, 2012

A million things to do this evening including wrapping birthday gifts ahead of Wednesday, when a certain young man turns 6, and applying for a new passport. That last one should have been fairly straightforward, but the conflicting information between UK FCO websites has made it ever so frustrating entertaining. *fixed grin* Thus, in order to keep up my [...]

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Simplicity

By 6000 | 6000 | March 20, 2012

As someone once kindly said: Simplicity is more often than not, a thousand times MORE. And that’s probably why I love this picture taken at Strandveld Winery so very much. I spotted it in the Cape Agulhas 2012 Tourist Guide and it popped up on my timeline again today. It’s almost as though it’s hinting [...]

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Long weekend

By 6000 | 6000 | February 18, 2012

Because the kids are off school on Monday (it’s half term) (for a day), we’re taking the opportunity to enjoy a long weekend at the cottage. Hopefully the weather will be better than the day I took this photo. Amazingly, the day in question was 24 short hours after Midsummer’s day and everyone was wondering [...]

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Unenhanced

By 6000 | 6000 | February 12, 2012

Quota photo time. And here’s an unenhanced pic of a  Pine Emperor moth (Nudaurelia cytherea cytherea) caterpillar: This one was wandering across the beach in Agulhas and it was a good 8cm long. Apparently, these larvae are edible (no, we didn’t) and feed (unsurprisingly) on pine trees, of which there are none anywhere near Agulhas.

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Thinned sunset goodness

By 6000 | 6000 | December 1, 2011

Still no time to blog, but it’s for all mainly the right reasons, so that’s ok. I got a few great pics of sunsets while we were away this last weekend. Here’s one of them optimised for quota photo usage: The original is here and there are more sunsets and other stuff in my November [...]

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