Another reason why brianmicklethwait.com is always top of my morning reading. Unerring (and amusing) narrative honesty. Brilliant. There’s even something symbolically wilting about the plane in the photo. UPDATE: Brian’s recovered and has blogged the air show in typical BM.com style.
I very much doubt that this will become a regular feature on 6000 miles…, so enjoy this one while you can. It’s the slightly belated South African version of Baby Marmoset Friday and (as you can read) probably came from here. In actual fact, the author of that second post then traced it back to somewhere else and […]
The Six Nations rugby tournament kicked off yesterday, with England beating Italy 36-11 and Ireland beating France 30-21. I’m not a big fan of rugby, which is one reason I will probably never be allowed to become a South African citizen. While England top the table after their triumph, the performance was apparently nothing to write […]
It’s not difficult to take good photographs in Cape Town. Decent subject matter is nearly always available, all you have to do is point and shoot. But because of that, the bar is raised and because good is the norm, exceptional becomes the goal. Having only wandered outside to fix a drainpipe (what else do you do […]
Believe me. That 50 miles makes a hell of a difference. We popped out to Wellington – more specifically to Diemersfontein – for a wedding this weekend. What an interesting experience. Maybe it didn’t help that it was raining, but Wellington is nowhere near as pretty as some of the other towns in the Winelands. It also […]