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Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2015/16

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“IT’S SUMMER TIME!” he screamed, prematurely.

And so yes, these ARE the droids dates you are looking for:

large_Logo Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts

2015

22 Nov: Freshlyground
29 Nov: Zonke Dikana
6 Dec: Arno Carstens Music
13 Dec: Mango Groove
17, 18, 19, 20 Dec: Carols at Kirstenbosch
27 Dec: Jimmy Nevis
31 Dec: New Year’s Eve concert: Jeremy Loops / Grassy Spark

2016

3 Jan: The Parlotones
10 Jan: Prime Circle
17 Jan: Karen Zoid and Francois van Coke
24 Jan: Mi Casa
31 Jan: The Soil
7 Feb: Cape Town Folk ‘n Acoustic Music Festival
14 Feb: Matthew Mole / Rubber Duc Music
21 Feb: GOLDFISH
28 Feb: The CapeTown Philharmonic Orchestra
6 March: Shortstraw / The Plastics
13 March: Al Bairre / Bye Beneco
20 March: Zebra & Giraffe/ Monark
27 March: Beatenberg / John Wizards
3 Apr: The December Streets / The Vanilla

 

Tickets: www.webtickets.co.za

Ticket prices vary, but are mostly are mostly R80 or R110 for kids (6-21 years old, with ID) and R110 or R150 for adults.
Exceptions are the New Years Eve special (R330pp) and The Parlotones, who have to charge a bit more than everyone else because they have their massive egos to service (R140-R175).

As ever, book soon or miss out.

Snake

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It’s snake season, and we’ve seen a few down in Agulhas in the last couple of weeks. The one I saw this weekend was only a baby though, and with fishing net in hand (we were off to the beach), I did a quick catch and release.
Here’s the catch (as it were):

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…which shows the colour and beautiful patterning along this little Puff Adder’s back.

And here’s the release bit.

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I’d love to have got some proper close up shots, but even though this little guy was only ±30cm long, he could still pack a punch. Sometimes, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Especially when you are 50km from the nearest hospital.

More weekend photos (from camera and phone) here.

CapetoCape BBC interview

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We’ve told you several (if not more) times about the Swedish Pilot Johan Wiklund and his crazy plan to fly from Nordkapp in Norway down to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa in a 1935 Tiger Moth biplane.

Johan is currently in Kenya , taking a break from the flying and doing some well-deserved maintenance on the plane. BBC World caught up with him there for this short interview.

We’re now into October, which means that it’s actually later this month that Johan is due in Cape Town Stellenbosch.

Not monochrome

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Altogether now…

“What a difference a day makes; Twenty-four little hours.
Brought the sun and the flowers,
Where there used to be rain.”

Except not.

Sadly, it seems that we’re doing things backwards down here in Cape Agulhas. Yesterday gave us this scene of the boy ‘togging whales (more of that when we’re back in Cape Town):

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But today, I found myself walking the beagle and gazing out over an ocean that looked like this:

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It was almost as if all the colour had been sucked away.

The snakes and the tortoises that we saw wandering around here yesterday have been replaced by snails and happily chattering frogs. Annoyingly chattering. Puff adders may be venomous and nasty, but at least they are quiet.

And then the recollection that I’ve promised to take the boy up the local hill on his bike in this grey mizzle. That is, once I’ve dried out from this morning’s exertions…

Pole dancer

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Bear with me. Thanks.

We went to Madame Zingara’s last month. It was great. But I can’t help but think that they got the order of their acts slightly incorrect. Because they started out with this guy, Saulo Sarmiento, doing this stuff:

Focus, ladies. Focus.

I’m not saying that the other acts weren’t entertaining or incredible in their own right. But they didn’t quite manage the spellbinding, wow factor of our Saulo. He would have been amazing as the final act of the evening. The grand finale. The big finish. Die grootste afwerking.

Or, if he really needs to be the first act of the show, then make his the last act… as well.

I have several minutes experience as a theatre show director, so you should definitely listen to me.