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Muti Trek Ends 2008-05-30 03:02:12 This morning I was rudely awakened by this apparition clumping around the house:
Hun’s son , Rob, is finishing his 8-month trek from Turin to Cape Town this weekend. Hun is Be.Side.Him.Self with excitement. He has borrowed a BMW motorcycle, and together with about 15 of Rob’s closest friends, will be meeting Rob as he rides [...]
Free Man U Poster 2008-05-25 08:11:41 I didn’t even know it had been detained. Read more:Poster
Xenophobia Vigil 2008-05-23 04:51:47 So I went along today. Not sure if it was out of curiosity or because I cared.
But when I got there, I was blown away by the silent power of everyone’s emotion. There was no question of violence. These were just fellow South Africans stating that what is happening is wrong. With dignity. Commanding respect.
The [...] Read more:Vigil
The Dream Mile 2008-05-06 13:08:09 On 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran the mile in 3:59:4, achieving the ‘physiologically unachievable’.
‘They’ forgot to tell him that it could not be done.
Young Roger became the first person in the world to break through the elusive four-minute barrier, also known as the Dream
Mile.
But wait, there’s more…
John Kundy did it again, a mere [...]
Sê Weer? 2008-05-02 19:38:56 Seen in Vincent Pallotti Hospital today.
You’d think they’d provide a bed, at least.
Third Door on the Left 2008-04-28 10:35:32 “There we are, Miss Thorpe,” said the clerk as he stamped the bottom of the last page of the application. “All done. Now just go down the passage, take a right turn at the end, up the stairs and then straight ahead. Go into the third door on the right - that’s where they’ll give [...]
“Let’s go for a Drive” 2008-04-15 10:32:14 It’s a long time since I’ve gone ‘for a drive’. Saturday morning saw us doing just that. We started by making our way to Signal Hill, and I was rather impressed how it has been upgraded. There is a proper lookout deck, a manned information kiosk, and toilets (seriously stinky, but toilets nonetheless).
There was even a fire [...]
Circle of Life 2008-04-01 16:08:05 I had a ‘piphany. It was like one of those 3 a.m. ones, except that it was closer to 3 p.m. On Sunday.
We had escaped to Betty’s Bay for a weekend of slouching around in our comfies, with no cellphones or television. Just books* and copious amounts of dark chocolate and red wine.
So there I [...] Read more:Circle
Two Oceans Marathon - The Friday Run 2008-03-26 07:22:07 For nineteen consecutive years Two Oceans
has been run on Good Friday
by runners who choose not to run races on Saturday for religious reasons.
The main differences between the Friday run and the Saturday run, are that the roads are not closed and there are no refreshment stations. On Friday, runners are allowed assistance from a [...] Read more:Marathon
Two Oceans International Friendship Run 2008-03-26 05:22:25 The second InternationalFriendship
Run was held on Good Friday, 21 March. Two Oceans
runners from over 60 countries were invited to take a leisurely trot through the Cape Town city centre, past historical landmarks and key points of interest.
Starting at the Good Hope Centre, the participants meandered through the Company Gardens, past the Museum and Planetarium, [...]
Goodman’s New Room Divider 2008-06-16 12:04:53 “Hello, I’d like to confirm employment of Goodman
Tini please.”
“Who’s speaking?”
“It’s Bianca, from Russells in Claremont.”
“OK. Hi Bianca. Yes, Goodman does work for me. Why do you want to know?”
“Goodman wants to buy a room divider on HP, and we need to establish his credit-worthiness.”
“How much is the room divider?”
“Three thousand five hundred rand plus [...]
Crazy Frog turns 3 2008-06-21 07:51:22 Three years ago today, Axel F’s Crazy
Frog hit the top of the UK charts. One of those whirlwind fads which took the world by storm; you either loved it or hated it.
From Wiki: “Crazy Frog
is an animated character used in the marketing of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer [...] Read more:turns
Chess: The Musical 2008-07-09 23:39:28 I don’t like musicals. I’ve really tried. From Gilbert and Sullivan to Rodgers and Hammerstein: I’ve slept through them all. Aida is the most expensive snooze I’ve ever had.
I can’t hear what they’re singing most of the time; and I really have a problem when a man who’s about to be [...] Read more:Musical
New markets: Thanks, Eskom. 2008-07-09 04:29:40 At least one company has converted its entire asset base from pc’s to laptops as a result of the havoc caused by Eskom putting in a disappearance. They simply cannot afford to lose two working hours multiplied by 100 man hours on the whim of an unreliable power source.
This opens the market up to a [...] Read more:Thanks
Tour de France 2008. A Girl’s Perspective. 2008-07-08 00:13:36 The dulcet tones of Phil Liggett resound through the house. It’s the only time of year we have anything other than SABC. Tour de France
time.
Yesterday was Stage Three. I confess to a bit of a gril when a pack of cyclists heads towards the camera. But every now and then [...] Read more:Perspective
Degrees of Sympathy 2008-07-07 08:55:29 This morning’s Cape Times stated that 16,000 Capetonians are in need of assistance following the storms of the past week.
I found my lack of emotional response to today’s headlines quite worrying. Is it because it’s the same story every year, and I’m becoming immune to the same pleas for help, year after year? Or is [...] Read more:Degrees
, Sympathy
Off on Sundays? 2008-07-06 16:05:38 OK. So most everyone gets Sundays
off. Except priests. But I’m not a priest. And that doesn’t mean I automatically get Sundays off.
So I get to figuring. Lent is forty days. Of sacrifice. But if you actually count the days from Ash Wednesday (when Lent begins), to [...]
How would you like your Husky Homestyle done, sir? 2008-07-05 03:14:49 Economists have declared that South Africa will be in a recession by October.
During the last recession Husky
launched two new ranges of ‘gourmet’ dog food: ’Chunks in Gravy’ and ‘Homestyle’. I can understand the gravy: it makes the ‘meat’ more palatable for less discerning dogs. But why on earth would a [...]
Independence Day 2008-07-04 02:41:13 332 years ago, the thirteen united States of America told the British to Vat their Goed en Trek, because they’d had enough of their kak.
These Americans believed that all men are created equal, and that man has been endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The Declaration [...] Read more:Independence
, Independence Day
Letting Go 2008-07-03 03:18:10 We’ve spoken twice a year for the past twenty years. On his birthday, and on mine. That’s the way it’s been since it ended. Our lives are very different now. Suburban and domestic. Comfortable. I last saw him about eight years ago. I realised that I still loved him, and [...] Read more:Letting
PR Gaffe of the Month 2008-07-02 09:24:00 Rayda Jacobs’ Confessions of a Gambler won the Sunday Times Fiction Award in 2004, and has recently been seen on the local cinema circuit.
Last Friday, The Cape Times invited readers to a literary lunch at Meerendal, to launch Jacobs’ latest offering, Masquerade.
Today’s paper carried an apology on page three: “The incorrect menu was published in [...] Read more:Month
These are a few of my favourite things 2008-07-01 01:07:16 Smells. Rain on hot tar. Onions frying. Toast. Freshly brewed coffee. Hun kissing me on the neck while I’m cooking, with a “Thank you for all you do for me”. The laughter of friends while I’m cooking dinner for them. A night at home in front of the fire. Falling [...] Read more:things
Patent Pending 2008-07-24 16:43:02 This is getting ridiculous.
I’ve had a bird feeder in my garden for a few years now. On Sunday I added a sugar-water feeder. Since then, the bush telegraph has advised every single White-eye in Cape Town that Dinner is Served.
500ml of sugar water was consumed today. That’s 100g of sugar. These birds are going to [...] Read more:Patent
On Ageing 2008-07-23 14:31:02 43. An inconsequential number. I feel anything but inconsequential.
An ideal birthday today. I spent the morning pottering in my pyjamas; and the afternoon doing errands (not in my pyjamas). The ones I wanted to do.
Hun offered me a night on the town: dinner and a show. Thanks, I said. [...]
My Room with a View: The Soapie in my Garden. 2008-07-22 11:19:39 We open on the never-ending squabble between White-Eyes and Sunbirds for the bouganvillea-impaled apple. The male Sunbird takes time out only to berate his drab mate if she dares sip from the feeding bottle.
Upstage left, Narcissus the Bulbul concusses himself repeatedly on his reflection, startling the dog; who in turn, sees off the bandit [...] Read more:Garden
You’re so Vain… 2008-07-21 12:37:38 “Hey, not too shabby…!”
When last did you see a photo of yourself that made you say that?
Over the past ten years or so I have recoiled whenever somebody has taken a picture of me. I’ve preferred to be the ‘photographer;’ getting away with having no pictures taken.
So yesterday I thought, [...]
Send in the Clowns 2008-07-20 12:16:32 I’m passionate about my theatre, and I love what I do. But not today. We had photo call for the show that I’m directing. The one that is opening in three weeks time. It was chaotic. The cast wanted to chatter and have fun. I wanted to get done [...]
Arguing with myself 2008-07-19 06:32:37 I can’t keep biscuits in the house.
I’ve tried eating only one or two, but invariably eat the whole packet if there’s no one around to share my gluttony. I’ve tried telling myself
that if I don’t open the packet, then I won’t be tempted. But then I know that I’m going [...]
DIY Conflict Resolution 2008-07-17 18:39:57 I attended a funeral of a man who died too young. The fact that his wife could give a eulogy three days after her husband’s death astounded me. But it was what she said that really blew me away.
Gwen told us that her husband often travelled - for business and pleasure. [...] Read more:Conflict
, Resolution
90 tomorrow 2008-07-17 16:46:47 It was about five years ago when I heard about his funeral. Or at least the plans for it.
Companies in all sectors of the economy have been appointed to snap into action when the unthinkable happens. From caterers in Cape Town to security guards in Soweto; hundreds of businesses have been [...] Read more:tomorrow
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