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Baby cyclamens

Posted on: November 18, 2013

October 2012 – 2013

My friends know I’m a crazy old cat lady in the making but I’m also one of those people who fret over who’ll water their plants when they’re away from home for extended periods…

Cyclamens are one of my favourite flowers, I fell in love with them at first sight in 2005 and have had several of the beautiful pot plants since then. Currently I have 3 adult plants and, for the first time ever, my plants bore seeds at the end of 2012. With the help of the internet I managed to grow them into baby cyclamens.

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Posted in Gardening, Photography, Plants, pretty things
Tagged beautiful, cyclamen, favourites, flowers, garden, gardening, grow, hobbies, hobby, house plants, photography, plant, plants & flowers, pot plants, seeds

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Red Huxley ‘Nothing More’ album launch with the Dollfins and Goodnight Wembley at the Assembly

Posted on: November 17, 2013

Friday 15 November 2013

A few months ago, I joined over 100 others in backing Red Huxley on Kickstarter to help them record their debut album with Dave Catching of Eagles of Death Metal in the USA. Their crowdfunding effort proved successful and the band headed off for the states in July. Fast forward to November and they’re back with their completed album, Nothing More, which they launched last Friday at the Assembly supported by the Dollfins and Goodnight Wembley.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged album launch, cape town, events, gigs & festivals, goodnight wembley, guitars, harrington street, jumping musicians, launch, long hair, music, photography, rain, red huxley, robfather, rock, south africa, south african, summer, taxi violence, the assembly, the dollfins, the mysticcs, weekends

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Your LMG’s ‘Rest in Print’ farewell party at the Dragon Room

Posted on: November 10, 2013

Friday 8 November 2013

I had my first music photo published in LMG magazine in mid 2011, and did my first editorial shoot for them in November the same year. In the 2 years since then I’ve covered loads of gigs for the mag, had the privilege to shoot 3 covers and met some great people in the LMG family. So, like many, I was really sad to see October’s issue of LMG had a gravestone on the cover and the headline Rest In Print.

It’s the end of an era, a bittersweet sign of the times – LMG will now exist solely online. Going out in style after 5 years and 77 issues, the printed mag was laid to rest at an epic 3-stage party at the Dragon Room on Friday.

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Tagged 7th son, blame jakes jazz installation, brass, cape town, chandelier, club, dance, das kapital, decor, dj, dj invizible, eastern, edm, electronic, evenings, farewell, favourites, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, haezer, harrington street, indoors, interior, jumping musicians, lasers, long hair, magazine, mix n blend, nomadic orchestra, party, photography, rest in print, robfather, rock, ryan gosling, saxophone, shadowclub, sideshow, ska, south africa, sun-do q'lisi, the dragon room, the very wicked, thor rixon, trumpet, weekends, your LMG

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The 19th Cape Town International Kite Festival in Muizenberg

Posted on: November 3, 2013

Sunday 3 November 2013

On the first weekend of November the Zandvlei nature reserve in Muizenberg once again played host to the CT International Kite Festival. Sunday was a beautiful summer day with a good wind: perfect kite-flying conditions for both the public and the professionals.

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Posted in Events, festivals
Tagged american, annual event, british, cape mental health, cape town, cape town international kite festival, charity, clouds, crowd, dutch, event, fun, international act, kenyan, kite, kites, muizenberg, outdoors, people, photography, public, sky, summer, sun, wind

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The Cape Town Zombie Walk 2013

Posted on: October 27, 2013

Saturday 26 October 2013

Last year’s Cape Town zombie walk was the first I attended and I had an awesome time. Back again for the fourth time, this year’s walk took place in the city centre – from Thibault square to the museum, along St. George’s Mall and the Avenue in the Company’s Garden. Though town was a bit quiet the urban setting was fantastic and the zombie horde managed to successfully scare a bunch of unsuspecting citizens…