Has anyone lost a nuclear aircraft carrier lately? Well, it got the okay to drop anchor in Table Bay, {Cape Town}, despite the official objection from Earthlife Africa. I ask you with big whale tears in eyes: Why? And why can’t an enormous surface like that make use of the wind, waves and sun to create energy? Enough said, leave at that and hopefully their “radiance” leave us soon too.

In the foreground of the previous image we have an interesting design innovation made by South Africans. {Fanfare/ bravo} Their unusual shape is intriguing and so is their name: ‘Dolos’. More information on this story on your trustworthy Wikipedia :{ wish I had this at school, when I was young} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolos these heavy concrete bone like features are here to protect the installations around us, from the action of the waves.

The pilot skills were really admirable here in the strong windy conditions to hook up cargo non stop for the 'vessel' back and forth.

180 degrees turn, never have your back to the sea, but this angle of the new Stadium to host the 2010 soccer world cup, caught my eye, more bone like features. All in a days work of one of the many Victoria & Alfred Waterfront activities.

The amount of construction and demolishing going on in the ‘Mother City’ (Cape Town) is in my eyes worrying. Do we have to loose all the charm and uniqueness of this one und only place in the world to more and new advancements? Most ancient cities like Italy, Spain etc it’s their main attraction and the new blends with old without the unquestionable compromise.


So from now on I will document all the ‘old’ architecture as we do when we overseas and do like all these sightseers come to do; hopefully it will not be too late.

Yes, its official. The kite festival at Zandvlei taking place on the 25th and 26th October 2008. More detailed information available at http://www.capementalhealth.co.za/kite.htm . This is really groovy magic for old and young at heart.

Miniature kite found in envelope size and made of Zebra pattern on tissue paper and string is normal yarn on flat piece of cardboard, a fun item to send via snail mail and it flies beautifully in breeze, not recommended in strong South Easter wind. Found on previous festival. Also check previous post of May[zandvlei, kites] to get an idea of those wonderful kites flying about and obviously bring your kites and enjoy.

My wacky family, 5 minutes of sunshine and that's what they, Bonnie and Clyde, get up to. Early morning outside temperature is about 15 degrees Celsius and the water well you have to ask them and the whales.

Clyde contemplating how life really can be a beach. Not a soul in sight, not even a doggie soul to strut my terrier stuff and style.

Look Ma, I'm airborne, ..." My Bonnie flies over the ocean" . She taught me today to always seize the moment and how right she is because the rest of the day became grey, cold and grim but we had the wacky few moments forever...

They might not be the legendary Bonnie and Clyde but they do know how to steal hearts...

There used to be a job description called 'girl friday'. Well I've decided to put this in another context and make Friday's a girl day. Decadent, indulgent and just time out for girls. I'm going seriously PINK, not my favourite colour but for today it's really such a lift/boost.

This ice cream 'parlour' [due to chandelier] is on Muizenbergs beach front and called Sinfull..The pink water running in the background really caught my attention on a rainy grey day and the ice cream, decadent and creamy with lovely flavours.

Some more fun, one of my own handmade platters with some decadence, looks like I'm really longing for sunny days.

What is 'girly' friday without flowers. Some wild fig blossoms from the west coast. Have a good weekend everyone.

When all the ‘bling’ goes on the blink. Why is it that when one thing goes wrong more will follow suit, like a domino effect or is it ‘Murphy’s law’.

A washing machine is “necessary” luxury, in other words bling. Well, mine decided to turn the jet engines to propellers.

While taking this image it struck me how futuristic it looks and how these appliances have evolved over the years. What is even more mind boggling is that repairing will cost nearly as much as getting a new machine…

So the next thing that goes on the blink is the good old fashioned telephone. Classified as luxury, bling because a large number of people do not have access to this necessary facility of communication.

6 days,…Telkom, who is still the main monopoly, decided to finally send a’ technician’. The most frustrating process, even with all the technology at bay, when the line is dead. What eventually sparked was to physically be with a consultant at their offices and place the long awaiting process into action. People with time constraints must find this very medieval. Hearing a dialling tone though…, wow what can I say.

The Internet, or rather the access to it, is really the biggest puzzle of them all.
To try and resolve a PC problem with the guidance of the service provider, with the absence of a landline was quite consuming. Needless to say the precious, costly, bling bandwidth still gets chewed on at sporadic intervals as soon as connection commences, hence the long absence.

And this is for all the damn spywares , spams, cookies, malware, viruses etc, bunch of piranhas ‘tagging’ along the main sharks, chew them , delete them…

Handpainted on a puddle platter, earthenware by Anja

In the same time frame the president decides to resign. [Go on blink]. Was showing off all that bling of a navy fleet, a story behind the story, one of the last straws ? [previous post]

And somewhere between all this bling on blink it’s officially spring, cold, wet and snow caps. The equinox, more tilt to the sun of the earth’s axis, please don’t go on the blink…

It looks like I have to start "blommetjie" [little flower] blog; but bear with me,it's Monday and it's grim, grey and raining again. Besides this is internationally famous, people visit from far to experience this.


Saturday, sunny t-shirt day and off we go to the unspoilt West Coast Sea Village of Yzerfontein,approximately 80 km from Cape Town. The main reason is that it is one of the first accessible places to find the 'wild' daisies and vygies:http://www.plantzafrica.com/ .


I've managed to create a weak spot for flowers with house - hubby because he only tackles the West Coast for abalone, crayfish and fish but now he says he feels like a criminal the minute he puts on his flippers, the logistics for recreational diving are unmentionably sad. So compensation came disguised as fish for lunch with amazing sea view and not a breeze...


Anyway, back to the blommetjies, we found them, different variety of patches, no carpets of colourful outbursts of once a year spring show offs; faces following the sun.

Can you imagine what the "Impressionist" artists like Claude Monet would have done with this; an absolute field day...

Just slightly closer

Close up

and all varieties in one frame, the daisies and the vygie. [see above for link]

The rest I'm keeping for later because rumour has it these are the last of the season, glad we caught them and the sun and the time...

A real try and squeeze in everything kind of day: mellow,yellow,sunny and windless and just going on minding my own 'busyness'.

My kids [4-legged] Bonnie and Clyde love their run at the estuary [Zandvlei].

"No, we don't see no bees", this is fun yellow flowers just for us once a year. Absolutely stunning.

Then I decided to do the "catwalk" without the dogs. Its a promenade next to the sea and the railway line and main road. 3 ways of transport modes. all in one line and its been there for a long time.

The locomotive 'dumps' these carriages here at the Muizenberg Railway station. Its a hotel on wheels, called the Shongolo and they are stationed next to the sea and get transported to all their various activities. The everyday train passes here and is partly yellow.

So, further along I notice the show off of the navy fleet and this sign got caught in the middle of things and I found it kind of apt.

Quite close to the shore, and the whales are in this water right now too.

Then further towards Kalk Bay, the next sea village at Sundown 'er time another sign caught my eye, outside a popular restaurant. I'm still minding my own business.

Normally, this is not my kind of blog material but all these signs just gave me the sign,they demanded attention. All in a few hours.