OK. Not always, but in the case of the current heatwave across the UK, big steps have been made – by Science – in working out from where the problem originated.
Honestly, who knew?
No such problems here. We haven’t seen the massive star for quite a while (although tomorrow promises to be quite nice, if a little chilly).
We’ll just have to keep going with the warming effects of fermented juice of local vineyard crops – as discovered by scientists.
Well… me.
It’s dull, grey, cold and miserable out there today. Misty and drizzling all day. Seemingly impossible to warm up. We’ve all been taking turns at getting as close to the fireplace as we can.
And so a monochrome cartoon from the Gallery of Apocalyptic Arts seems somewhat appropriate:
Of course, Cape Town isn’t ugly and industrial and horrible. At least, it wasn’t yesterday – I can’t see very much of it today in the gloom. But as an allegory for the general state of the world at the moment, this is sadly rather accurate.
Truly horrible.
Great news on funding for the Notting Hill Carnival.
A whole pound. I’m sure that will make all the difference with those “critical public safety concerns”.
Don’t spend it all at once.
It reminded me of the story when this guy missed his jugular vein by “just” 1m.
I don’t know if it was meant to be a centimetre or a millimetre, but either way, it’s clearly not much of a story if it’s a metre, given that that is pretty much the distance from your neck at which chainsaws routinely operate.
Just like I’m not sure if that’s actually a million pounds above, but it certainly would be a story if they’d saved the Notting Hill Carnival by finding £1 of extra funding.
Of course, there’s a bit of a more serious issue here: the continuing slide in standards of journalism.
But at least it makes for decent blog fodder.
Here we go.
We knew this was coming. And we know that the replacement for BBC Sounds is the BBC app, which won’t allow me (or anyone else outside the UK) to listen to 6Music.
And that’s still true.
But there is a link in this article which… (unless I’m missing something) allows you to listen to 6Music – just not on the BBC Sounds app.
So this was never about a rights problem with the music, then?
But hey, that’s absolutely fine by me. I will still be able to listen to 6Music here in SA, and that’s all that matters.
To me, at least.
I can’t test it just yet, because it links straight to the BBC Sounds app – which still works.
Until July 21st.
But… but… this is fine.
Isn’t it?
Back in Cape Town, where the internet works [nervously checks – yes it does] and it was a lovely journey home. We punctuated it with a few stops along the way. Some planned, like this one to get some shots of what’s left of the shipwreck:
And some less planned, like pulling over to get some shots of the rainbows over the South Atlantic:
And then this guy, who was bothering the teals, ducks and geese in the flooded fields between Struisbaai and Bredasdorp.
We spotted him, pulled over, and we thought we’d missed him before we heard that haunting, spine-tingling call (if you don’t know, click here). Geese (x2), teal, ducks, stilts, ibises (x2) and a Fish Eagle, all within 20m of the highway. All you have to do is stop, get out and look. It’s all right there.
He even went and sat on a nearby power pole (one of the ones that burned down here, I think) for us afterwards.
Sponsored by Kodak, as they used to say.
The rest of the journey was less exciting, but the Overberg is already showing signs of spring with the canola fields starting to erupt in colour.
Just another two months of rain to get through…
A trip full of hard work, but with just a bit of leisure time at the end, and a sparklingly clean cottage to look forward to for our next trip.