Tomorrow…

… is my last day at UCT, which has been my home (at least in the work sense) for the last 4 years. Feeling a bit melancholy tonight, and touched by the kind messages of goodbye I’ve received in the last few days… but also exhausted from all the extra long hours of work that [...]

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A moment of South African reality

Last night, we headed down to the V&A Waterfront. We reached the big intersection at the end of Eastern Boulevard, where we had to turn right into Dock Road, which would take us into the Waterfront. The traffic was quite heavy, because it was shortly before 18h00, and there was a crowd of pedestrians, most [...]

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We’re back from the Garden Route

We (Richard, his sister Tanya, and yours truly) returned late on Saturday night from an exciting, adventure-filled, glorious-weather-blessed week on the Garden Route.
We stayed at the Homtini Guest Farm just outside the little village of Rheenendal in the mountains above Knysna; toured an abandoned gold mine in the mountains of Millwood; hiked along Jubilee Creek [...]

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I’ve got my books!

Today was an exciting day.
Today was the day I collected 50 shiny new copies of my very first REAL book, Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides*: An adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route, from the printers – appropriately named The Printing Press – in Little Mowbray this afternoon.
They came out beautifully. Look:
I think that Paula [...]

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