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Casual Day 2011

Here’s how it works, one day a year (usually the 1st Friday in September) people are encouraged to buy an official sticker for R10.00 (less than £1) and on that day they can go to work, school, university, wherever in casual clothes.

The project has been running for 16 years now, organised by The National Council for Persons with Physical Disabilities in SA (NCPPDSA) but the big difference this year is that we Autism Eastern Cape are an official distributor.

Which means that we are allowed to keep R4.00 of every ticket sold! 🙂

We’ve been working on this project since about May, hassling friends, walking up to complete strangers, Continue reading “Casual Day 2011”

Photo & Retouch

Photo and retouch, that’s what the artist Eric Johansson calls it, (portfolio here)

Coffee spill — Took me a while to notice what he'd done here

There’s more, in fact there’s lots of them Continue reading “Photo & Retouch”

Gautrain

Have I mentioned my absolute dislike of the big cities? If not, I’ll just restate quickly that I absolutely hate them, the rush, the traffic, the insular attitudes, the crowds, I’m sure that there’s more but you get the picture.

I had to go to Johannesburg last week for a couple of meetings, I’d tried so hard to get out of the trip but the supplier / principle insisted and so reluctantly I booked my ticket. 9:00am flight up 15:45pm flight back.

In brief I was collected from O.R.Tambo (newspeak for Jhb international or Jan Smuts for those of you with longer memories) precisely on time, whisked off to Springs for a presentation and demo, then off to Rosebank for another and finally to Orange Grove for a quick lunch.

Needless to say up until the lunch everything had gone meticulously to my rather cramped schedule, then some old friends heard that I was in town, Continue reading “Gautrain”

No laughing matter

Although this did raise a smile this morning!

My daily read also has a column of South African Facebook and social network comments, showing little sympathy for the plight of the British government, here’s a sample… Continue reading “No laughing matter”

Dodge Monaco

Paraprosdokian

Well here’s a word that you don’t hear everyday.

But I, of course, heard it today and simply had to share.

So what is it?

A) An unsuccessful South American cocaine smuggler . (Currently serving a jail sentence at the pleasure of the U.S. department of justice)

B) A figure of speech

C) The latest craze in slippers

D) A menu item from that very famous Spanish restaurant that closed it’s doors yesterday.

Continue reading “Paraprosdokian”

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew. Continue reading “My chequer tolled me sew”