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Eve Eve

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If we are going to have a few days off – no, don’t panic, not off blogging – then we have to get a few things sorted before we can relax. And after a whirlwind day of tasks and jobs being ticked off the list, I’m happy to say that we’re very nearly there.

Not quite, but very nearly. And if things go well tomorrow, then I think we’ll be done by lunchtime and then we can switch off a bit and begin the festive holiday thing. I t will likely involve some wine.

The two big bits of news today were signing an OTP on a car for the Boy Wonder, which is very exciting, and finally getting this delivered, which was a huge weight off my mind. 3 separate entities involved and I had to chase up each of them to manage to get things done. Amazon in SA has a long, long way to go.

But today, and the 17,500 steps it brought with it, has left me exhausted.

So happy Christmas Eve Eve, and look out for more fun and games tomorrow.

The 6000 miles… Black Friday Offer

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It’s Black Friday – the Christmas Day of the Capitalist Year – and to celebrate at 6000 miles… we’re offering you an incredible deal.

Read any post on the 6000 miles… blog today* absolutely free of charge.

To redeem this offer, all you have to do is read any post on the 6000 miles… blog – you’re doing it now – and it’s not costing you a penny or a cent! How good does that feel?

Tell your friends, tell your family, but perhaps most of all, tell your worst enemies, and put them through the torture that at least some** people enjoy endure each and every day.

Once described as:

That complete nonsense you churn out each day

the 6000 miles… blog has been a stalwart of daily South African life for several (or more) years now.

So don’t miss out: read it today, and then read again tomorrow. And then repeat. Often.

This offer is open to anyone with an internet connection and will run until midnight tonight, South African Standard Time, at which point it will just continue.
On and on, ad infinitum, never ever concluding until the end of time.

Terms and Conditions probably apply. Have a great day.

* and on all the other days
** statistics regarding reader numbers may be fabricated at short notice

Away this weekend

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Actually, all being well, we’ll have been away for 24 hours already, but thanks to the magic of WordPress, you might not even notice. A quick pre-write of posts for yesterday, today and tomorrow has already happened (or, obviously, “is happening” in the case of this one), and so you should probably head over towards

my Instagram

to see if I have shared anything particularly amazing from a well-deserved (her, not me) weekend away for Mrs 6000 and me.

See you Monday (live) and tomorrow at 8am (pre-recorded).

Much love.
Me.x

It’s been an interesting day

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Not feeling 100%, despite last night’s early slumbers and no proper symptoms of anything. Hot flushes, TATT, bit breathless from time to time, slightly sniffly. But nothing really nasty. Just a bit… off.

Still, real life must go on, and we had that Home Affairs appointment this morning. It went well: all done within about an hour, which is a remarkable turnaround time for that notorious government department. But it wasn’t really “smooth”. More like some sort of somewhat organised chaos. Still, this was a much better result than we had expected, so much applause for that.

And then, trying to take it easy. A bit of shopping because we had nothing to eat in the house. A bit of carwashing before the Cape Agulhas Municipality come looking for whoever stole what can only be described as “really quite a lot” of their dirt roads. Some wailing and gnashing of teeth as two of the people on my Youtube subscriptions list (it’s off to the right there) were gifted a quarter of a million Rands worth of camera (each) and a phat budget (each) to go to Sweden and the Faroe Islands respectively to test it out.

Seriously?

Yes.

I mean, I say a quarter of a million Rands: that’s obviously only if you could find stock of it anywhere in the world.

As corporate gifts go… Mmm.. Not bad.

And finally in this rather disjointed post: updated Google Streetview locations for 80 countries are on their way, which will mean updated Geoguessr locations for those 80 countries in the very near future.

And – possibly more relevant – four new Google Streetview countries, which will add to the Geoguessr challenge: Bosnia and Herzegovina (how will you distinguish it from Montenegro?), Namibia (Botswana/Northern Cape vibes?), Liechtenstein (this will look a lot like Switzerland, I think), and Paraguay (I have no idea, but I’m rubbish on South America anyway).