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2021 – Music in review
MUSIC So ends the second year of isolation! While it might not have been fun, the old cliche is still true: the time really did fly. Honestly I can’t even remember that much at all. I think especially with all … Continue reading
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Tagged comfort, covid, eurovision, memories, mercury, music, ramblings, reflection, review, south africa, south african, special places, streaming, texx and the city, year end
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Tagged comfort, covid, eurovision, memories, mercury, music, ramblings, reflection, review, south africa, south african, special places, streaming, texx and the city, year end
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Music: 2020 in review
MUSIC One of the very few positive things about 2020 was the music – some really good tracks and albums were released in spite of (and sometimes even because of) everything. On this day I note my 14th year on last.fm and … Continue reading
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Tagged aces 'n' spades, comfort, eurovision, grimes, memories, mercury, music, music festival, phoebe bridgers, puscifer, ramblings, reflection, review, south africa, south african, special places, streaming, texx and the city, year end
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Tagged aces 'n' spades, comfort, eurovision, grimes, memories, mercury, music, music festival, phoebe bridgers, puscifer, ramblings, reflection, review, south africa, south african, special places, streaming, texx and the city, year end
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Misc photos of 2016
2016 The danger of doing something too often is that it loses its charm – I shoot a lot and sometimes having a camera with me just feels like work, but I tried really hard to make time to shoot … Continue reading
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Tagged abisko, animals, aurora, autumn, birds, blossoms, cape town, cat, cats, ceres, cherries, christmas, daisies, end of the year, evenings, favourites, flower, flowers, freya, g7x, instagram, ixus, jasper, kapstaden till kiruna, kira, kiruna, landscape, landscapes, lily, macro, maine coon, memories, monzi, moose, mountains, nature, new year, northern lights, norwegian forest cat, obituary, olivia, outdoors, personal, pets, photography, plants & flowers, pocket camera, powershot, remembering, review, rip, selfie, south africa, south african, spring, summer, sunrise, sunset, sweden, table mountain, tribute, west coast, west coast national park, winter, year end, ziggy
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Tagged abisko, animals, aurora, autumn, birds, blossoms, cape town, cat, cats, ceres, cherries, christmas, daisies, end of the year, evenings, favourites, flower, flowers, freya, g7x, instagram, ixus, jasper, kapstaden till kiruna, kira, kiruna, landscape, landscapes, lily, macro, maine coon, memories, monzi, moose, mountains, nature, new year, northern lights, norwegian forest cat, obituary, olivia, outdoors, personal, pets, photography, plants & flowers, pocket camera, powershot, remembering, review, rip, selfie, south africa, south african, spring, summer, sunrise, sunset, sweden, table mountain, tribute, west coast, west coast national park, winter, year end, ziggy
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2012: a year in (in-between) photos
03 Jan – 31 Dec 2012 It took me longer than I thought it would to put this post together – seems there were a lot of photos I took last year that I never had the time to edit … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, aftermath, animals, art, autumn, beach, birds, birthday, blouberg, cape town, cats, cbd, chris, christmas, city, clouds, company gardens, company's garden, drinking, end of the year, evenings, events, family, favourites, forest, freya, friends, garden, garden route, hammond, home, ixus, jasper, kira, kite, knysna, memorial, memories, mom, monzi, mountains, nature, new year, nostalgia, office, office humour, olivia, out and about, out in the country, outdoors, party, pets, photography, planes, plants & flowers, point and shoot, reflecting, sea, shackleton, sky, south africa, spring, summer, sunset, table mountain, trees, water, waterfront, weather, weekends, winter, winter days, work, year end, ysterplaat, ziggy
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Tagged 2012, aftermath, animals, art, autumn, beach, birds, birthday, blouberg, cape town, cats, cbd, chris, christmas, city, clouds, company gardens, company's garden, drinking, end of the year, evenings, events, family, favourites, forest, freya, friends, garden, garden route, hammond, home, ixus, jasper, kira, kite, knysna, memorial, memories, mom, monzi, mountains, nature, new year, nostalgia, office, office humour, olivia, out and about, out in the country, outdoors, party, pets, photography, planes, plants & flowers, point and shoot, reflecting, sea, shackleton, sky, south africa, spring, summer, sunset, table mountain, trees, water, waterfront, weather, weekends, winter, winter days, work, year end, ysterplaat, ziggy
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Arc Reactor, Skyt Muties & Matt Roux at Zula Bar
Thurs 27 December 2012 Town was quiet last Thursday night, but that just meant the show at Zula felt especially loud. An eclectic crowd was treated to an equally eclectic line-up of acoustic singer-songwriter Matt Roux, 80s/90s band Skyt Muties, … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, cape town, evenings, friends, gigs & festivals, guitars, joburg, jumping musicians, long hair, long street, matt roux, metal, reunion, rock, skyt muties, south african, summer, summer nights, year end, zula
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Tagged acoustic, cape town, evenings, friends, gigs & festivals, guitars, joburg, jumping musicians, long hair, long street, matt roux, metal, reunion, rock, skyt muties, south african, summer, summer nights, year end, zula
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