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Leaving Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | February 26, 2012

As in… “I wish WPRU were…” But that’s not what this is about – later in the week for that one. This was taken yesterday evening as we were heading down the back of the Danie Craven stand at Newlands after the Stormers v Hurricanes game. If we’d left earlier (or later), the moon and [...]

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The Curse of 6000

By 6000 | 6000 | July 5, 2011

On Friday last, over chocolate chip muffins and a decent cup of coffee at work, we reviewed the newspapers and jokingly made predictions for the rugby and various other sporting events over the weekend. One of those “various other sporting events” was the Vodacom Durban July, which (for those not in the know) is a horse [...]

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Capetonian woman continually surprised by events

By 6000 | 6000 | June 30, 2011

News just in: Capetonian Margaret Wilson (61) of Diep River, has admitted to being “almost permanently bewildered” by what she describes as “a continuous stream of surprising events” which she claims are plaguing her life. Yesterday, my son-in-law asked if I had registered the card in my cellphone. I asked him why I needed to [...]

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That match at Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2010

It was the biggie. The North/South derby match. The one that everyone had been talking about even more since they realised that this season, it might actually make some meaningful difference to the final standings of the Super 14 table. We parked the kids with a handy Mother-in-Law, I dosed myself up with MedLemon and Corenza [...]

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On fielding weakened teams

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2010

The MASSIVE match this coming weekend is the MASSIVE clash between MASSIVE rivals, the Stormers of Cape Town and the Bulls of Pretoria in the Super 14 rugby tournament. And there’s a MASSIVE amount at stake, with the Stormers looking for a lucrative (and potentially winnable) home semi-final, which they will get if they win this game. [...]

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