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I’m not sure this is ok.

#tbt It couldn’t have been more obvious that ‘bar mooda’ was a front for organised crime. Expensive décor. No one in it. The police did nothing for reasons that are easy to guess. It took the staff being tied up and the place being firebombed to finally drive this particular blight from Observatory. This was taken on the morning of the firebombing.

@federicoandraderivas sounded a bit nostalgic about his time writing his master’s thesis in @hello_sailor_bistro from his vantage point of writing his PHD in Vancouver. Surprise, surprise. I found a pic of him writing in there. Must have been a good few years back.

She’s out and about after many years.

Hers ’n his. All ready to roll. Two of the most elegant cameras to emerge from the genius of 20th C Japanese engineering. On the right is my Pentax MX, available from 1976 - my birth year - which I’ve used since 1993 and has been all over the world with me. On the left the Olympus OM4 which came out in 1983. It’s an electronic marvel compared to the all mechanical MX. I got it for @withoutaleaf to document #setlife . ...

I found this pretty awesome pic of my pretty awesome sister-in-law, @awesomemeerkat (it’s right there in the name) who just had her birthday. This was at an ancient oak in Glastonbury back in 2000.

#tbt 4th July 2004 according to the EXIF data. This was some kind of national competition. I think this was the épée final judging from the audience watching in the background. The fencer in the foreground is Clementine Williams who I used to fence with even back in school, and her opponent is called Jacobs and I think was from Wits.

#tbt When the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) cathedral was built it was the largest church in the Christian world and had the largest dome of any building. After Constantinople was conquered by the Turks (the final end of the Roman Empire) it was converted into a mosque (as Christians did to mosques in Southern Spain too) and the minarets were added. But the original 1st church of the Roman Empire still stands today. And this is what it looked like on a nice day in Istanbul in 2000.

Early lunch at Hello Sailor. It really looks like summer out there on Obz lwr Main. Listening to a podcast about Qt and the future of being able to package python projects for execution.

This Saturday afternoon at SurfaRosa in Cape Town. We commence the summer at a braai session. Our most exciting show of the year. Start the summer right. Braai on the pavement. Craft-beer, cocktails, pizza, and blood-stirring live music inside.