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Winter roses

Posted on: July 2, 2013

Wednesday 22 May 2013

While I spent my birthday feeling miserably with flu, I really enjoyed the day before which included a walk around the beautiful roses at Chart Farm.

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Posted in Out & about, Photography, pretty things
Tagged beautiful, cape town, chart farm, close up, farm, flower, leaves, macro, nature, outdoors, plants & flowers, rose, south africa, winter, winter days

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Party Town: Make-Overs, The Future Primitives, The Dollfins & Black Lung at Carnival Court

Posted on: June 30, 2013

Saturday 29 June 2013

Saturday was a night of intense energy and sweaty claustrophobia courtesy of 3 of Cape Town’s power trios, The Future Primitives, The Dollfins and Black Lung as well as probably the loudest duo in the country, the epic Make-Overs from Pretoria.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged black lung, cape town, carnival court, favourites, future primitives, gigs & festivals, guitars, long hair, long street, loud, make overs, mosh pit, moshpit, photography, rock, singing drummers, south africa, south african, stage diving, the dollfins, weekends

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Long weekend up the Garden Route

Posted on: June 26, 2013

14 – 16 June
2013

Last year I spent a weekend in Knysna and have been dying to go back ever since; 2 weeks ago my wish was granted when I once again joined Jess and Leon for a wonderful getaway along the beautiful Garden Route.

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Posted in Out & about, Photography
Tagged beach, birds, birds of eden, bloukrans, bridge, canopy, clouds, eastern cape, favourites, forest, friends, garden route, knysna, lagoon, loerie, mountains, nature, out in the country, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, plettenberg bay, river, roadtrip, sky, tour, travel, trees, tsitsikamma, wilderness, winter days

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Fox Comet ‘Blazing Trails & Fiery Tales’ Album launch, with Al Bairre and Grassy Spark at Zula

Posted on: June 3, 2013

Saturday
1 June
2013

There had been warnings all week that a huge storm was to hit Cape Town on the first weekend of June, and the warnings had been right. The rain was almost relentless and Saturday was was a night to be spent at home under a warm blanket – not a lot of gigs could have persuaded me otherwise, but Fox Comet‘s album launch was something that simply could not be missed…

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Tagged al bairre, album launch, brass, cape town, captain stu, favourites, fox comet, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, indie, jumping musicians, launch, long hair, long street, music, photography, rock, saxophone, ska, south africa, south african, weekends, winter, zula

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Dutch tall ships at the Waterfront

Posted on: May 27, 2013

12 & 14 May
2013

Following pretty closely after last month’s Russian Sedov, two weeks ago the V&A Waterfront docks were graced by 3 more tall ships, this time Dutch – the Tecla, Europa and Oosterschelde. We checked them out on Mother’s Day when they were open to the public and then watched them depart for Durban the morning of the 14th.

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Tagged 3 anchor bay, cape town, dutch, europa, events, greenpoint, harbour, international, ixus, ocean, oosterschelde, outdoors, photography, point and shoot, sail, sailing, sea, sea point, ship, sky, south african, tall ship, tecla, the tallest man on earth, v&a, water, waterfront, winter, winter days

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