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My mother’s city

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I’m in Cape Town this week, visiting my mum for the first time since she’s moved to the Mother City.

There have been more pictures than words of late, and I’d have turned this entire space into a photo blog yonks ago if it didn’t mean I would be giving my procrastination djinn the rope to strangle my muse.  But for now, while Table Mountain mellows and irons out my thinking, pictures will have to make do.

 

Cape Town
Looking towards Cape Town from Milnerton beach

 

Mother City Ship
Cape Town Stadium about to be hailed back to its mothership

 

The wreck of the Seli 1
The Turkish bulk carrier Seli 1 ran aground on Table View beach in September, 2009

 

 

Click here to read my 2006 Capsule Cape Town account.

Found poetry: from the spam folder

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I occasionally scan through my spam folder for misdirected mail or 419 scams that demand my immediate response.

In-between the googolplex in lottery wins, monster erection guarantees, bank phish and the miscellany of bot-generated indictments on human desire and greed, it was with great delight that I came across this gem;

dear importer

Have a nice day !
Lately we have a nice nite water pen , Kpen-050 and i suggest to you at the first time . Please kindly check the below details .
Kpen-050 Set of 6 colours (green , purple , pink , yellow , orange , blue )
When we write down the word , it seems many colourful firefly on our paper . Let ourselves go to the summer night , we play with our friends , count the stars , enjoy ourselves . Please don’t hesitate to order this products , sure all your customer will be like .
Warmly welcome to you order this product . Then we will quotate the price according to your order details .Best regards !
Racheal
perfect culture and sport product co.ltd

“Let ourselves go to the summer night”, a thought of wonderment that is.

Now you too can enjoy a reminder of careless beauty by clicking on the image below to download the wallpaper I created from this found piece of whimsy and stock from DragonArts.

 

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