You sound surprised…

As spotted at Pick n Pay yesterday:

“Even the kids like ’em”?

Why on earth wouldn’t the kids like ’em?

If I were asked to name a particular demographic that I think would like these sugar-laden biscuits with “colourful sugar-coated chocolate” pieces all over them, I would probably go straight for the under-16 age group.

Am I somehow unaware of some widely-held knowledge that “the kids” are adverse to the enjoyment of sugary biscuits?
Is that why your tagline confuses me so?

Sadly, these are banned in our house as – despite the scientific evidence to the contrary – E133 Brilliant Blue sends Alex absolutely bonkers for about an hour per cookie.

She’s gone away

The Queen Mary 2, which had only arrived 30 hours previously, left Cape Town this evening.

Was it something we said?

I caught a quick glimpse of her from the Waterfront after the football (which was brilliant, by the way) and then we watched her turning like a left back (you know who you are) and heading slowly out of port. Poor people are heading for Durban.

More photos here. More words tomorrow.

Quota sunset No.38

Mowing lawns, laying pavers, feeding worms, watching disappointing FA Cup football, ironing, braaiing and swimming. Tomorrow is going to bring a whole new world of pain.
And thus, you’re getting this quota photo, taken at Llandudno last month.

As the post title suggests, this isn’t the first time I’ve done this.
It’s not bad though, is it?

Island of the Seven Mountains is displeased

See?

This is a satellite image of the ‘Island of the Seven Mountains’ (right top) or more precisely in Russian: ‘having seven hills’, taken from The Guardian’s Satellite Eye on Earth series, and which features another 17 amazing pictures as well.

As for the angry islands above:

This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds of the North Pacific. Situated on the far end of the Aleutians, Semisopochnoi Island is simultaneously the most easterly and westerly point of the United States of America. Roughly 1,275 miles west-south-west of Anchorage, Alaska, Semisopochnoi has no native land mammals, so it is a natural nesting area for sea birds. But bird populations were decimated after Arctic foxes were introduced to the island for fur farming in the 19th century. In 1997, the last fox was removed from the island to allow the birds a safe refuge again. Part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, the island now supports more than a million seabirds, particularly auklets, according to the National Audubon Society.

So now you know.
And for more pictures of faces on inanimate objects, you need look no further than the Switch Face group on Flickr.

False Bay view

Some weeks there are too many pictures on this blog. But this hasn’t been one of those weeks and there are words everywhere.
It’s time to remedy that situation.

I grabbed this image from the upper slopes of the Groot Constantia Wine Estate on the evening that my boy was meeting Father Christmas and as the sun set across the Cape Flats.

It seems that I still have my fascination with dead trees.
I’m not sure that this is a good thing.