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Tag Archives: wine

Snails, Cheese and Wine. And Rain. And Footy.

By 6000 | 6000 | November 8, 2009

It’s been a wet weekend. Very wet. Latest figures from Kirstenbosch suggest that they weren’t really expecting rain at this time of year and forgot to put the rainfall gauge out. But if they had have done, it would have been full. And that’s a lot of water. I would look it up on the SA Weather Service [...]

5 Comments Also tagged cheese, chelsea, man u, snails |Posted in annoying people, flickr, sport, this is south africa

Our wine, your wine

By 6000 | 6000 | April 26, 2009

Living in South Africa has many advantages: the weather, the nice people, the lack of Gordon Brown, the amazing scenery and – especially for us folk down in the Western Cape – the easy access to some great wine. I know you can get South African wine in the UK as well, but let me make [...]

11 Comments Also tagged flagstonewines.com, south africa, UK |Posted in UK, this is south africa