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Filling you in on the absurdities of life in Cape Town: the trials & tribulations of fatherhood, the utterly futile search for decent customer service & daily encounters with bizarre South Africanisms
High & mighty prawn in town (just)
6000 miles from civilisation...
Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when the months training done by cyclists on the local roads – free-wheeling through red robots, riding thirteen abreast, not bothering to buy lights, cycling along the freeways etc etc – come to fruition as they get some...
Ashanti in World Cup u-turn
6000 miles from civilisation...
It seems that Ashanti Lodge, whose exorbitant 309% World Cup price increase we noted in January and who still hadn’t sold their rooms for the tournament just a couple of weeks ago, have had to rethink their pricing strategy for June and July. Their rates page now has a...
Too much
6000 miles from civilisation...
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,...
Fifth Amendment – Testing Audio Player
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Greetings from sunny South Africa, where, having utilised a couple of 737’s and my 3-year old son to help me, I successfully turned the front garden into the horticultural version of Ground Zero, It’s a job I’d been meaning to tackle for ages, so with...
Hometown Prettiness
6000 miles from civilisation...
While we’re suffering the slings and arrows of the outrageous thirties, the UK has had a horrible, horrible winter. Much of which has been beautifully documented by flickr user karl101. These are two of my favourites, snowy foggy view and ferris with moon, but his whole...
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