A lot of rain fell over Cape Agulhas this weekend. Struisbaai and Arniston are cut off again.
And there’s a lot more on the way:
Numerous warnings for the incoming rain, which has been described thus:
This is becoming one of our most historic systems.
Looking forward(?) to a very wet couple of days.
Stay safe…
A deliciously late lie-in this morning. Awakened at 7:20 and thought I’d give myself another 5 minutes. Woke up over 2 hours later. Genius.
Thankfully there was nothing pressing to get done: a bit of gym, some household stuff, some garden stuff, a bit of prep for a photoshoot tomorrow morning, and then looking forward to heading off out this evening to watch Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund go at it in the UCL final.
Now, I’m sitting in the sunshine with the beagle, and contemplating a quick nap.
Just for 5 minutes.
UPDATE: I’m awake. It’s all good. (Didn’t nap – safety first.)
And I snapped this across the Cape Flats as the day came to a close , because… well… why wouldn’t you?
There’s drama in them there skies.
Busy day. Bit late with a blog post.
Thankfully, someone did this, almost knowing that I needed something handy and quick:
And Ah Jesus. Is this quick…
The first 90 seconds are just normal, and then he checks over his shoulder and…
I know that time is valuable and you can’t always find 19:19 to watch a whole video. But if that’s the case, please flick through to a few random points in the video and just watch for a few seconds.
Totally worth it.
These guys are just next level nuts.
It seems that South Africa is full of political experts. Who knew?
What a country, though. Who could forget when it was full of microbiologists and vaccinologists not so long ago? And then, just after that, specialists on the history and geopolitical situation in the ex-Soviet Republics and then the same for the Middle East.
That’s the sort of pivoting and agility management that you only find in this remarkable population.
Who knows to what we will turn our collective hands tomorrow?
Right now, it’s spin doctoring of the highest order:
Explaining why this party’s 0.3% is actually a better result than that party’s 22.3%.
How that party winning this area doesn’t actually count for anything, because [stereotypical voter demographic] was always going to vote that way.
Calling for the head of a party they don’t even care about, while studiously ignoring the fact that they outperformed everyone’s wildest predictions.
Just making everyone aware that it’s someone else’s fault that the 68% of the population that support your single policy party’s single policy mysteriously morphed into 0.21% on election day.
Still, all this mental manoeuvering does at least distract us from the rather unpleasant thought of an ANC coalition with the EFF (ANC-lite) or MK (ANC-heavy), running what’s left of the country (into the ground).
And it’s also not leaving much space for wondering where local political phoenix has-been Patricia de Lille is going to emerge this time around. But then again, who cares?
If the whole “Tax cuts for pensioners” and “Bring back National Service” policies suggested by outgoing UK PM Rishi Sunak were (rightly) ridiculed as being pre-election desperation tactics, then what on earth are we to make of this?
At least Sunak’s promises were a month and bit away, even if they were clearly the last ditch attempts of a dying government to try and win a few more votes. This one above was announced literally 3½ hours before election day.
Next level stuff.
That’s the 4th major bill Ramaphosa has signed into law in the last 2 weeks. And while I’m not saying that those bills are necessarily good or bad (OK, I’m saying that the NHI bill is an absolute disaster, but still), it’s pretty sickening that after 30 years in power – 6 of them with him in the Big Chair – we’re suddenly seeing actual work being done, simply because the ANC is about to lose their overall majority, and – linked, but also not the same – they ANC is desperate for votes.
If these things were so right (not the NHI bill) and will be so beneficial for the country (again… not so much the NHI one), then why weren’t they signed into law weeks, months or even years ago?
It almost makes you think that the ruling party is simply desperate for voters to see them actually doing some actual work.
Weird.