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Packing

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I’m feeling unprepared for this week, which isn’t a good way to feel. Hopefully, by this afternoon, I’ll have got myself a little more prepared, allowing some sleep this evening, but there’s a lot to do between now and then.

We’re back off to Robben Island – the trip that was (thankfully) postponed last month – and I’m there to help and oversee and advise. But I’m feeling a bit too hands-off this time around. Not that I think there will be any problem: we have a great team, and we’ll have a great time.

Just those nagging doubts. And plenty to get sorted between now and our ferry crossing tomorrow morning.

Look out for photos as and when I can. Instagram (link) and here will be the places to keep an eye on.
Obviously.

If you need to find me…

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Here is a page with all of my internet details:

Find 6000

I know that it’s all a bit complicated with everyone wondering where to migrate to while the Loud Mouth Space Wanker kills what’s left of twitter, but this blog – and the page that I have linked to above – will remain, so that you can always find me.

You lucky, lucky people.

There’s no one clear alternative standing out at the moment, and thus everything is rather diluted, but I’m currently pinning my hopes on BlueSky, so that’s probably the best place to start from a social media POV.

6000coza on Bluesky

That said, I’m only starting there today, so it’s going to take a while.
In the meantime, all the other links are also all completely valid and worth a look.

Quiche

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“Fancy a quickie for dinner?”
“I think you’ll find that it’s pronounced QUICHE!”

But this is a quickie. Hugely busy day and still stuff to do before this evening, when we are also doing stuff.

So here are a couple of links:

Is it because it’s driving through a horrific bit of Sheffield where bus peltage is actually the least of your worries? Spoiler: it is.

Also, this:

Decency long left the building at X. It flows from the very top. When former executive Yoel Roth, whom Musk wrongly accused of being a pedophile, warned recently about hate speech on X, CEO Linda Yaccarino’s first reaction was to play down his concerns. On Monday, Musk followed up: “I have rarely seen evil in as pure a form as Yoel Roth.”

More final nails are being added at an alarming rate.

Just in case

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Heading down to Agulhas, Apparently connection has been sketchy down there due to flood damage so I’m popping this one up just in case.

(but you can probably expect more later)

Runaway afternoon

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A quick placeholder post here, which I may or may not add to later.

A quick look at the diary this afternoon suggest that things may just run away with a couple of meetings, some school pick-ups, lifts here and there, and at least one concert. So let’s play it safe and pop a post on the blog to make sure that 11 years and 9 months of daily posts doesn’t come to a silly, abrupt, disappointing end.

I’ve got almost halfway through the photos from the Kruger trip, being very harsh and whittling them down into a folder called “Kruger – Final”. The idea on this first pass is just to separate the wheat from the chaff, then have another look in the fresh light of a new day and then separate the best wheat from the rest of the wheat. So then, “Kruger – Final” will inevitably then morph into a slightly smaller folder: “Kruger – FinalFinal”, and then if I’m still feeling quite stringent… well, maybe you can guess.

I’ll get it all done before the weekend.

So far, there are about 40 images in the first effort, with at least a couple of images of which I’m really proud, and at least a few that probably won’t make the next cut. But that’s what the process is all about, and hopefully, this is proof that it’s working well.