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Flowers

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We decided that it was time to get the kids out and about again after a whole week (and a bit) of sickness. They’ve been hit hard and we’ve been forced to keep them at home and relatively calm and still. This hasn’t gone down well with the two of them, because inside, calm and still are not things that they enjoy. Thus, they went a bit demob happy around Kirstenbosch this afternoon. No harm was done, but they may have over-exerted themselves a little; a fact indicated by the manner in which my 8 year old boy had to be carried into bed this evening.

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Kirstenbosch is great whenever, but it’s especially colourful at this time of year: something I know my parents will be jealous to be missing. So this post is for them, although you too can see some flower (and alpaca, obviously) photos in this album here.

Doubting Hound

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We’re knee deep in Corenza C here Chez 6000, so please accept this quota dog in lieu of a proper post.

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Here’s everyone’s* favourite beagle puppy, Tigger, looking rather doubtful.
This is actually rather sad, because she’d just been informed that she is actually a dog. She’s convinced that she’s human, but if she were, then we wouldn’t make her sleep in a cage, or allow her to crap in the garden. Not since that visit from the Child Protection Department when we were raising our second child, anyway.

If this virus persists into tomorrow, I’m off to get tested for distemper.

* because they don’t have to clean up after her.

Quota Pegasus

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I’m not a big fan of horses. Dangerous things, and another animal that some humans treat as… a human.
Weird.
Thus, you wouldn’t find me on any horse. And that means that I wouldn’t find myself in this sort of position.

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The look on the guy’s face is great: “Ooh. This is not going to end well”.

UK readers may remember A Question Of Sport’s “What Happened Next?” round and that would certainly be interesting (and probably painful).
I’d also like to try its sister round “What The Bloody Hell Has Just Happened?”

Panoramae

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We’re chilling out by the coast and there are important things to do like walking on the beach and cooking meat on the braai so blogging is always going to take a bit of a back seat.

Still, you need your fix and so here is not one, but two quota panoramae! [cue gasps of astonishment from the expectant crowd]

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The first one is from our journey down here last night. Some nameless dirt road just north of Napier where stopped to give Colin a comfort break and to take photos of the sun setting over the Southern Cape farmland.

The second is from the beach near Suiderstrand, this time walking Colin until it broke and needed to be carried home.

I suppose that if there is one thing to be said for having a dog, it’s that you get the opportunity to take photos like these, when otherwise, you’d probably be in a pub somewhere, enjoying a nice drink and some good laughs.

Hmm.

Sky Shot

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This photo, shared by the Isle of Man Tourism Facebook page is of the Milky Way over the Calf of Man:

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Photo by Brook Wassall: see more of his Manx stuff here.
The red light is Thousla rock, which has a small lighthouse on it, because it has a bit of history. Some people were commenting that Brook should have removed the red light, but I think it makes it more “real”: it could almost be CGI without it.