It’s been a weird week:
Is it any wonder I’m still a little confused?
Beer. Beer is probably the best solution here.
Category: this is south africa
Lawn Status Update
Following a few weeks of growth, and then a few hours of hard work this morning, I am pleased to announce that the lawn status here at Chez 6000 has officially been downgraded from
Oh Christ, we’ve lost the bloody beagle again, to
Could probably do with a cut.
I’m not sure why we chose kikuyu grass for the lawn. It grows like a weed if it’s looked after (i.e. watered) (ours was), but it dies like a dead thing if subjected to partial shade or minor drought. The buffalo on the other lawn (firstly, in this context buffalo is a kind of grass, not a huge mammal (the presence of which would surely negate any mowing anyway (or at least make it far too dangerous to cut the grass)), and secondly, I’m making my garden sounds much, much bigger than it actually is), but anyway, the buffalo on the other lawn is robust and took almost 30 seconds to mow.
Yes, I now realise that the kikuyu was a mistake.
I predict some rebuffalisation in 2015.
Have yourself…
… A merry little Christmas.
We all thought that killing our birdlife was bad enough, but apparently the local wind turbines have other targets at Christmas time.
Caledon is likely to be strewn with reindeer parts tonight. Great for biltong.
And while we don’t all believe in the story of babies in mangers and gift-giving shepherds, whatever you’re doing over the next few days, I hope it’s enjoyable and relaxing.
(Thanks Tina for the image)
Anecdotal evidence
This has no scientific evidence to back it up, hence the title. Although some people just trot out these things and pretend they’re gospel.
Not me. I have nothing more than my undocumented observations and general gut feeling on these.
- Egyptian Geese are taking over Cape Town. Also, Sacred Ibises (Ibii?) are on the increase, while the drab, but lovable Hadeda is getting harder to find. And hear.
- Sticking with the nature thing, there are fewer Christmas Beetles around every year.
- Cars: Audi is the new BMW when it comes to driving like a cock.
- And CF is the new CY when it comes to someone being 5cm from your back bumper on the N2. (Although CY drivers are still uniformly
stupidfoolish* and dangerous.) - There’s traffic on the roads in Cape Town all day now, too. I witnessed this change in Sheffield as well. You can’t get anywhere quickly by car any more, at any time.
- But still, never use Main Road to go anywhere if you don’t have to. It’s always slower than any given alternative.
It strikes me that the above post makes me sound like a grumpy old man, but I’m only ever two of those things at any given time. And I’m not actually complaining about any of these things, I’m merely documenting them.
How else is Cape Town changing? What differences have you noticed (but have absolutely no evidence for)?
* revised my adjective at the request of @anib, an unashamed CY driver.
Signal Hill Fire timelapse
Incoming from @TheLifeOfByron on twitter – his timelapse of the fire on Signal Hill this morning:
Well done to the fire crews who (finally) attended (Byron was struggling to get in touch with them):
@6000 I would have started the time lapse sooner but I was on hold! Haha
— Byron (@TheLifeOfByron) December 1, 2014
…and got this under control.
And thanks to Byron for capturing it in such a creative way.