A local monument to the great, cosmic turtle, A’tuin - which slowly paddles through space on its mysterious journey, it’s head full of ineffable thoughts, with the world borne on the shoulders of the four elephants that ride on its back.
School kids walking past parliament and a statue of the first prime minister of The Union Of South Africa. Maybe they’ll get to live in a country that’s not exploited by tyrants or thieves.
“All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon As we poison the pigeons in the park, And maybe we’ll do in a squirrel or two As we poison the pigeons in the park” Tom Lehrer
Obz is still Obz on a Wednesday night. Warm lights and lots of merry noise on Station Road on my shop run.
The Diaz Tavern is just one of those local places - far from fancy but forever popular. Simple Portuguese and Moçambiquan food (grilled sardines followed by steak ’n chips for me) and a gathering place for CT’s Portuguese community it seems. Substance over style. Parabens.
Colours and contrasts in the early morning shop run. The XE1 is small enough to take anywhere with me. That’s a HUGE advantage over modern SLRs.
Why do Capetonians think that any ‘fancy’ performance deserves an automatic standing ovation when at popular music shows they’re too cool to even clap? 🤔 We went to Handel’s Messiah last night which is I guess an Easter tradition? Certainly these two atheists spent more of Easter Sunday thinking about the life and death of Christ than most people do. Also I got to dress up for the second time in a weekend. I reckon I was one of 4 audience members in a tie. ...
Here we are again. Linko’s Sichuan 🌶 beef soup. The hottest thing I’ve tasted in Cape Town. And it’s low carb if that’s your deal.
We’re eating with a view of Cape Town’s mysterious Theosophical Society headquarters.
#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.