Ten degrees? As a maximum?
Is this some sort of joke?
Approaching the end of September and we’re still only scraping into double figures?
Of course, it’s only unofficially Spring, but it would be nice to have some unofficial Spring weather to go with it.
The Volvo Ocean Race has named Cape Town as the first port-of-call for the 2014/15 event. The competing teams will leave Alicante in Spain on October 11th 2014 and are expected to arrive in Cape Town around the end of the month. There will then be an in-port race in Table Bay on Novmber 15th before they head off to Abu Dhabi on November 19th.
This comes after a first stop in Recife was abandoned when a team local to the port withdrew from the race.
Cape Town has been on the route for 10 of the 12 VORs and it’s a big money spinner for the city:
Councillor Grant Pascoe, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events & Marketing, said he was delighted the City of Cape Town and the V&A Waterfront would host the event once more.
“Not only does this race offer worldwide marketing exposure for Cape Town and raise the City and V & A Waterfront’s profile as a top leisure and events destination, it also provides a valuable boost for the many local industries through visitor and organiser spend”
The total race distance is now just under 73,000km and will finish on June 27th 2015 in Gothenburg, over seven months after it started.
Not a sponsored post, but definitely a good idea.
Go to Sake House Restaurant, check-in on Facebook (using the handy QR codes on their tables, if you wish) and get 50% off your sushi lunch or 25% off your dinner! Sit-down or take aways! Call now on 0216747600 or book online via EZ table.
It’s widely accepted that Sake House do the best sushi in the Mother City (I shall hear no comments on “that place in Sea Point” or how you “love so and so’s in Kloof Street) and now you can get it more cheaply than you were previously paying before.
What’s not to like?
And just in case you’re still too stupid to realise what an opportunity this is, let me drop these little gems in from Chef Eddy’s menu:
Africa Dream: Smoked springbok, avo, brie cheese, mango with fig mayo sauce
Sushi Boerewors: Spicy tuna fried in tempura batter served with ponzu sauce
50% off gives you four of the Dream or SIX of the Boerewors for R22.50. Pretty decent, amirite?
I would now conclude this blog post with something cool and witty, but I’m already on my way to Claremont for an early lunch.
There will be people – probably not within the target market (such as it is) of this blog, but still there will be people – who will want to join Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party.
To do that, you’ll need to go to their website and click the appropriate link. But please remember that when paying, certain rules should be observed for the collective good:
EFF encourages fighters to use the FNB ATM to depositing membership fee as opposed to doing it inside the bank.
Economic Freedom Fighters encourages all those who are paying their membership directly to do so at the FNB ATM, as opposed to inside the bank. This is because when you deposit your membership fee inside the bank the greedy financial capitalists take R8 of the R10 membership fee. However, depositing it at the ATM is much more reduced.
Fighters across the country must guard at all times against being taken advantage of by any system. The membership fee must, as much as possible, contribute to the sustenance of the organisation we all love.
Damn those greedy financial capitalists and their 80% fee structure. Believe me, they’ll be the first up against the wall.
Screenshot available here for posterity.
Took my smallest half out for a walk to Piet se Punt this afternoon. Four kilometres along the beach and three tonnes of shells later, we returned.
This makes it look a whole lot gloomier than it actually was. I still reckon we’ll get a braai in this evening.