Horses that look better in the Parade Ring than they perform on the track

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Example No.1:

We spent the morning walking along Struisbaai beach before heading off at lunchtime back to Cape Town (Azerbaijani radio all the way home) (IYKYK) to be de-sanded and ready to get to Hollywoodbets Kenilworth to see this guy’s race.

Let’s just say that we worked a lot harder than he did. Another disappointing performance.

Still, got a little bit of money back in the Lucky Last, so it wasn’t all bad.

And it was a beautiful day, but the weather has closed in already and we won’t be seeing the sun again until at least Thursday.

Lazy Saturday (afternoon)

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After a really good night of braai’ing, beer and brandy, the last thing I felt like doing this morning was a Parkrun.

It’s often the last thing I feel like doing full stop, but at 7am this morning, it was an even less attractive option than usual.

But there’s more than one person in this marriage, and this was the occasion of Mrs 6000’s 50th Parkrun, and so I was up and ready to support her in this impressive achievement.

For the record, it was my 6th Parkrun, my first in almost 3 years, and my first in South Africa in almost 6 years. (I did say that it wasn’t my thing.)

But the Agulhas sunrise wasn’t bad…

The run done, I gave my legs a stretch on a speedy 2½km to the lighthouse, where we grabbed some decent coffee at the new Needles restaurant.

Home, showered and breakfasted, I just have to stay awake for United’s last game of the season, and then I can sleep off the excesses of last night and this morning.

Happy Saturday.

If the rain in the Western Cape could just calm its tits a bit, that would be great

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OK, disclaimers first. I know that it’s autumn. I know that it’s meant to rain from about now through until the end of August if we’re lucky. I know that we need the rain to fill up the dams so that we can have water in the summer. And I know that if it doesn’t rain all in one go, then it will have to rain all the time, and that’s not great.

But…

Another 31mm on a single day?

Is this the way that things are going to work from now on? 4 miserable days in a row, one of them with added flood risk?

I’m just asking so that I can try to adjust to this new normal.
And sort out the waterproofing in my garage.

Or is there perhaps a plan to get all the rain done by June and then have an extra two months of summer? Obviously, that is not going to happen, and it would have a horrific effect on agriculture and wildlife if it did. But an extra 8 weeks of sunshine would please a lot of people. Just saying.

Either way, if thing keep going like this, we’re going to have the dams back up at 100% well in time for next summer.
Whenever that might start.