Just a quick note to let you know that one of my photos has been selected by Cape Town Tourism as their pic for the day.

You can view it here on their website.

The roadworks along Muizenberg to Fish Hoek Main road seems to be going on for ever! I really wish that it would end.

Oh well, looks like I will be riding another bicycle race over Boyes Drive!

Traffic Jam due to stop and go system and roadworks.

Roadworks

Found on the back of a Woolworths packed of peanuts. This is simply getting bizarre!

Warning: made in a factory which uses nuts

Don’t forget that tomorrow is National Braai Day, the most important public holiday on our calendar. It doesn’t matter what you braa, but you have to braai something!

You can do some seared tuna

or some wors

How about smoked chicken on the Weber?

Don’t forget the garlic bread

And if you need any help, here is a step by step guide.

Hi all

Please read the important message below from the Tongmasters. Remember that 24 September is National Braai Day, and officially the start of the new braai season. As usual, we will be celebrating in style, so watch this space.

Braai Day

Giant steps are what you take,
walking on the moon
I hope my legs don’t break
walking on the moon (The Police)

It was forty years ago today, that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Apollo 11, was the first lunar landing, and the 5th Apollo manned mission. Think of the progress we have made since then:

• satellites
• satellite TV
• GPS
• satellite phone
• space stations
• probes to Mars
• satellite mapping of the entire earth (think Google Earth)

Apollo 11Command Module

Landing Module (one that did not goto space because the real ones never came back!)

(pictures by me)

Hi all

Just a quick update that the recent Toastmasters induction dinner was featured in the Cape Town newspapers. They also displayed a full colour photo of me and Lois. You can read the article on my other blog.

Craig

I only caught the tail end of this new item on Cape Talk this evening, but apparently the local minibus association is on a campaign to make its drivers more friendly. According to the spokesperson quoted on the radio "we are going to make our drivers as friendly as SAA staff".

I just hope that they are referring to the SAA cabin crew, who are generally pretty friendly, and not the call-center staff, who are quite friendly when spoken to, but otherwise impossible to get hold of!

Noble aims, but I wonder if they are not setting their heights a little too high?

A few months ago, I bought a few golf shirts when I was in USA. I bought them over there mainly because there is such a huge selection, the quality is great, and the prices are far cheaper than back home.

So, imagine my suprise when I discovered that one of the shirts that I bought was made in Lesotho, just around the corner (in fact inside) South Africa. This leads to an interesting question. Why is is that I can buy clothing in USA that were made just around the corner for about half what it costs in South Africa?

Our textiles industry has a fascination with the imported Chinese clothing, and how the imports are affecting our textiles industry. However it baffels me that I can buy clothing basically made in South Africa for fall less than it costs to buy a similar product in South Africa. Something doesn’t make sense.

Can somebody please explain?

Isn’t she beautiful?

She is a brand new Cort MP710F (Lefty) acoustic guitar. She has a solid spruce top, maple back and sides and rosewood fretboard.The electronics is very good-Fishman classic4 pickup, with build in tuner.

The sound is unbelievable – very full and clear. I am really looking forward to playing it at our gig tomorrow evening.

I haven’t named her yet, but in time once I get to know her, I will name her.

View from the tail

View from the head

My new baby

Guitar electronics and pickup