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Wind up

Posted on March 12, 2025March 12, 2025

Here’s the YELLOW LEVEL 4 WARNING for wind over the next few days.

And it’s already blowing like a fat bloke cycling up a mountain, so I can completely believe that there’s more to come.

Looks like I’m going to have to cancel those hang-gliding plans.

Again.

It also says that disruption to beachfront activities is likely, but surely that’s only if you want to sunbathe without being sandblasted. These sort of conditions are absolutely the best time to do other stuff on the beach, like walking, watching the waves or going for an exciting swim.

The more detailed warning (I’ll spare you the whole thing)…

…does contain the line:

…individuals should avoid standing under trees or near buildings with unstable structures during the windy Public Document IBF v1.0.

And that’s sensible, because those Public Documents can be proper bastards – much like anything related to any branch of the SA Government – when it comes to blowy conditions.

Honestly though, the only real dangers here are for small boats out at sea (easily avoided if you just don’t got out to sea in a small boat), and wildfires (less easily avoided thanks to the number of arsonists out there).

Iffy arvo

Posted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025

Things started well today, but it all went south from about lunchtime, and our geographical position in the bottom corner of Africa, doesn’t really allow much wiggle room in that regard.

So please forgive these few lines, and normal service will – hopefully – return tomorrow.

Dan Mace’s unfortunate missing ‘with’…

Posted on March 10, 2025March 11, 2025

I like Dan Mace. Local lad. Nice guy, by all accounts. And pretty prolific at age 35, too:

Dan Mace is a creative and visionary Filmmaker, Youtuber, CCO (Chief Creative Officer) for Beast Philanthropy and the founder of JOE films and CCO & product owner at House of Macadamias, BRU BAR.

He’s worked extensively with Casey Neistat, he works extensively with Mr Beast, and he’s clearly very good at what he does.

But we all make mistakes when we’re tired, and it was when he was on his way back home to his family last night, that Dan accidently missed a ‘with’. Not necessarily a huge thing, but it does depend on context, and the context was this:

Oops.

Thankfully, on the other end of the flight, apparently having being warned by several (or more) people (not me), he was happy to have found his ‘with’.