tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10457419195908623682024-03-13T18:25:21.102+02:00Hammer and TongsHammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-32483294302113912892016-11-04T08:24:00.000+02:002016-11-04T08:26:48.336+02:00The word for today is.......Institutionalize<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">establish (something, typically a practice or activity) as a convention or norm in an organization or culture.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>"he institutionalized the practice of collaborative research on a grand scale"</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">place or keep (someone) in a residential institution.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>"he was institutionalized in a school for the destitute"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may ask why have I put up this word with its definitions.... well it goes something like this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week following a particularly nasty interaction with a member of staff and then sitting </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in my office looking out the window at the myriad of other corporate serfs creeping past in their cars, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">an interesting thought wandered through the vast sometimes empty expanse of my head.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Said thought was....... Why have I not moved out of my corporate I.T. job of 34 years into something that better suits my personality..... and then it came to me; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The answer is ....... Institutionalization.... <span style="color: red;">YES;</span> I have been institutionalized, without me even knowing it has happened, well actually I probably did know, I just didn't want to acknowledge it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Institutionalization also happens to people who have been in prison for an inordinate amount of time and when released cannot handle the world they have been thrust into.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now please do not get me wrong, I am not trying to equate my job to prison life but I have still been institutionalized into the corporate world and the commensurate way of thinking with all its accoutrements - golden handcuffs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A question was asked awhile ago by a friend of mine on facebook, that has also had me thinking for a long while: "If money didn't exist would you still do what you do?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The answer is a resounding and emphatic .... NO!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over the years I have gained a number of ancillary skills outside of I.T. , I can make cheese, I can make fairly passable silver jewellery (See my Instagram site @metalsmith and also this blog - <i>unashamed punt</i>), I have a certificate in guesthouse management, I have a certificate in Project Management (although that is straight back at the corporate world) , and I know how to make chocolates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So why am I not doing any of that or myriad of other ideas that also wander aimlessly through my head?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Up until this juncture in time I would have said "Who on earth knows - right now I certainly don't ........ "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That cogitation has been brought in a number of ways to a rather sudden, and in a way rather unpleasant fruition and I am now forced into a place of deep consideration that I have been dragging my heels over for a goodly period of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so as a year comes to a close, all things that must change will change ........</span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-91899592247184594252016-09-05T09:49:00.004+02:002016-09-05T09:49:36.625+02:00Namibia - It was time to return<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently Pam and I had the pleasure of spending five days in Namibia with our friends Colin and Felicity, Colin is is in the financial industry and does contract work there hence the visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't been to Namibia since 1980 when I demobilised from the military. I was an NCO with the mounted infantry of the then South West African Specialist forces (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_SWA_Specialist_Unit" target="_blank">1 SWASPES</a>) during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War" target="_blank">South African border war</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But that is a whole other story, I haven't been back for personal reasons, so this was a bit of a big mental step forward. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This blog entry </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">about our trip to Namibia </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">is </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">however </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">well rooted in the present; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the Friday we flew in to Windhoek from Johannesburg with Namibian Airlines whom I I have to say I can totally recommend and was met by Colin, Felicity's husband; incidentally just to get the facts correct, Felicity was on the flight with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We dropped our bags where we were staying at the Capbon Guesthouse and then onto dinner at <a href="http://www.joesbeerhouse.com/" target="_blank">Joe's Beerhouse</a>, I have to say at this point; no visit to Windhoek is complete without having a meal here, my photo's did not do it justice unfortunately, so I can recommend going to this <a href="http://www.joesbeerhouse.com/gallery" target="_blank">Link</a> and look at their gallery .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next morning it was into the car and off to Swakopmund where we were staying at the <a href="http://www.bonhotels.com/swakopmund" target="_blank">Bon Hotel</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> An excellent dinner was had on one of the evenings in Swakopmund was at the <a href="http://www.the-tug.com/about/" target="_blank">Tug Restaurant</a>, it is constructed from the wheelhouse of an old Tugboat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From here we drove down to Walvis Bay where we joined a tour hosted by<a href="http://www.laramontours.com/" target="_blank"> Laramon Tours</a> . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It started by hopping on a catamaran for a couple of hours passing through Walvis bay harbour<span style="text-align: justify;">, then on for some </span>whale watching, before visiting a seal colony, then stopping near an oyster farm for a finger lunch with of course some fresh oysters with a rather nice sparkling wine to wash it all down.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Small boat harbour at Walvis Bay</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of Laramon Tours catamaran's</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From Lt to Rt: Pam, Felicity and Colin</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While we were leaving the harbour an enormous Cape Fur Seal hopped up onto the stern of the boat for a bit of fish and allowed us a bit of physical contact, this was hotly pursued by a pair of pelicans that also stopped off for some free fish</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cape Fur Seal on board</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">" I'll have my fish rare.... very rare...."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cape Fur Seal Colony</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Well hello...."</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> We then hopped into 4x4 vehicles for a trip down the coast with our driver and guide Chrissie from Laramon Tours, taking us along the beach into the desert to see Dune 7 at Sandwich Bay. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now these aren't just small sand dunes most people are used to seeing at holiday resorts but rather almighty mountains of sand at about 130 metres high; which a number of us proceeded to climb - this was heart attack heaven going up where upon I was, with a couple of others rather ungainly reduced to crawling on all fours for a bit, but having reached the top the views proved to be incredible and well worth the exertion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And last but not least..... there was the most fearsome cat of all "Fudge" who came for her milk in the afternoon and morning</span></span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-70154327106803942822016-08-28T14:21:00.001+02:002016-08-28T14:26:06.637+02:00End of the Saga of the Jeep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally I am able to ...... and dare I be so bold as to say happy to ..........report back on the Saga of the Jeep... <i><b><Loud Dramatic Music></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On Thursday 18th August 2016 the Jeep was finally working and I could take delivery of her, This was 1 year, 5 months, 6 days to have it overhauled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By no means was this all at the same place and does not in any way reflect negatively on the second mechanic , as you will read in previous blog entries - <a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2015/03/jeep-reborn-and-storage-wars.html" target="_blank">Jeep reborn and Storage Wars</a> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2016/07/the-ongoing-saga-of-jeep-caveat-emptor.html" target="_blank">The ongoing saga of the Jeep - Caveat Emptor</a> - I had to take the Jeep to another mechanic to be able to have it made driveable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The engine had to be stripped down completely, tested cleaned, valves and pushrods replaced, and then finally rebuilt.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The petrol tanks had to be taken for cleaning and repairing - paid for originally and not done.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The main rear tank, the one of hemorrhaging petrol all over my company basement floor fame, which incidentally was supposed to have been "fixed" by the original mechanic was so badly damaged it had to be scrapped - a new one will have to be imported and fitted sometime in the future.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The secondary spare tank fortunately could be cleaned and repaired.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">For the vinyl doors that are coming apart at the seams a tad, I will just get down with some glue and do a bit of cosmetic repairs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The "NEW" battery that was installed in the originally job also proved to be a dud and had to be replaced, the battery guy I went to commented that he did not think it was a new battery, but that is just an assumption, what wasn't an assumption however was I had to buy a new one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The second mechanic that worked on the jeep I have to say did a fantastic and job on it, the Jeep sounds and feels great. </span></span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-77014636998102329262016-08-27T17:14:00.000+02:002016-08-28T13:25:03.902+02:00Three Stacking Rings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I then put it through the half curve roller so that the inner side would have a curve on it while the outside still remained square, then cut it into the lengths required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And now to the settings, I am trying to teach myself settings from fabrication to completion, not a small task as it requires an inordinate amount of research, followed by copious amounts of weeping and a great gnashing of teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The settings were then soldered onto the rings, enter stage left the great weeping and gnashing of teeth, and so </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with a bit of perseverance </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the stones were set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is with just a touch of anger and disapointment that I continue from my last entry on the restoration of my Jeep</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wrote about the 12 years the Jeep sat locked up in storage until such time as I could justify the expense of having it refurbished and of the "restorer / mechanic" who had come highly recommended to me...... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well this was to turn into the biggest and most costliest nightmare I have ever been through, but let me go back to the very beginning.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jeep was carried away on a trailer as it was basically immobile, said restorer had informed me it would take about 2 - 3 months to complete, which was not an issue for me as I had already waited 12 years for this day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 - 3 months very quickly became 6 months and 6 months became one year and 2 months, in this time I had taken delivery of the vehicle 3 times, each time with dismal results - all you petrol heads out there will understand this - the rockers were constantly jumping off the push-rods which were jamming and then getting bent, valves were also getting damaged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At no time during the initial refurb was the engine opened up, a fact that friends and colleagues who are into bikes and cars and there engines were always quite surprised about, but rather a bit of lubricant was put into the engine and it was fired up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only after the first major failure of the rockers/push-rods etc. did the tappet cover get opened, after which it failed again, and the head gasket also blew out on one of these occasions, but still the mechanic continued merrily along taking no responsibility for it, only informing me that "I had not specified to have the engine opened and he was keeping costs down as I had requested, Yes I did request to keep costs in line but surely not at the detriment of the vehicle" - now I'm sorry... actually I'm not..... I am not a mechanic, I don't even pretend to be, I pay people to know these things and do it for me - he should have known that as the vehicle had stood for 12 YEARS maybe, just maybe the engine should have been popped open and looked at, but that's just me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This didn't only happen once or twice but three times and each time it died on me I was made to feel like an idiot, that he had tested it extensively and could not understand why I was having such issues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It even go worse in that one of the HT leads from the distributor got broken in the shop and the person doing the work just balanced the broken spark plug cap on the spark plug for me to discover when I hit my first bump in the road and it jumped off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That was when I discovered that all the terminal caps of the spark plugs were removed causing issues of their own due to the HT leads not connecting properly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so the saga was to continue......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 year 2 months after the initial start I took what I expected to be final delivery, although with now significant extra costs including some items that he had now chosen to somehow have been outside of the initial job - I now had to pay for the engine to be opened up and repaired, the alternator fixed and the windscreen motor fixed, petrol tank and petrol gauge fixed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh guess what the "fixed" petrol tank failed and dumped 50 Litres of petrol onto the floor of my office building basement causing a significant environmental health and safety issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But I get ahead of myself.... I took delivery of the Jeep and drove 7 kilometers to my office, enroute the Jeep was stalling continuously and I have was having a harder and harder time to get it going again, the noise from the engine by the time I got to my office was appalling, I got it parked and it died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was now to stand in the garage much to my chagrine from mid April 2016 until June 2016, mainly as I was NOT going to take it back to the "mechanic" under any circumstances and I didn't know where else to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had by this time received my bill for an extra sum of over and above the initial costs for the so called "extra work" done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I finally found a Jeep specialist to which I had the Jeep taken by flatbed truck (did I mention it was immobile again)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The report was not good..... damages is as follows:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Head not torqued down properly - Head was loose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Water leaked into the head - Head was loose(possible other damage)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final report at time of writing is still not out - there could be further damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A secondary albeit cosmetic issue but I feel by no means insignificant issue is that the doors that were installed have started coming apart (I had new doors and roof made for the Jeep).</span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-5454375851937310722016-07-01T10:33:00.001+02:002016-07-01T19:16:37.904+02:00Vancouver and back<div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the seriously great perks of my job in I.T. is that I get to travel, and by travel, I mean all over the world.</span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And while traveling on business I never ever fail to build in a bit of free time on weekends to do some exploring, that is not to say that of an early morning before work or after work I don't head out onto the streets of what ever city I happen to be in and just stroll around taking in the sights.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">My propensity for walking and seeing things was made rather evident to me on my recent trip to Vancouver for a business meeting of all the I.T. Managers from our offices around the world, when one of them inquired of our colleague from the Vancouver office 'where he could see or get xyz item' he was informed by our Vancouver colleague to rather ask me as I would not only know where to find it but also how to get there......</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Vancouver is an incredibly clean, neat, ordered, organised city; a far far cry from the filthy, disordered, unsafe chaos of Johannesburg from where I come, so you can imagine (or you probably can't - having not experienced it) what an absolute pleasure it is for me to walk freely and safely around a city.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">So back to the business at hand; we worked, had our meetings blah blah blah and out I got on the road.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">Here I have attached a map of the city so you can get an idea of where everything is that I am talking about.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">There were a number of walks through and around the city and along the harbour wall, walks out to Stanley park, walks down to Yaletown to catch the quaint little Aquabus's to get down to <a href="http://granvilleisland.com/" target="_blank">Granville island market</a> - I could have caught the transit bus #50, but I only do that when I've overdone it a bit and my feet want to fall off.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms' , sans-serif;">On the weekend I went into <a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/stanley-park.aspx" target="_blank">Stanley park</a> to the <a href="http://www.vanaqua.org/" target="_blank">Vancouver Aquarium</a> specifically to see the Beluga whales. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the creatures in the aquarium are either from breeding in the facility or that have been rescued from the wild due to injury etc and cannot be re-introduced into the wild.</span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Beluga whales are amazing to watch, it is the only whale that can bend its neck to look around, then there was the "<a href="http://www.vanaqua.org/experience/feature/discover-rays" target="_blank">Discover Rays Touch Pool</a>" experience; the aquarium has this enormous pool where you are allowed to hang your hand in the water and allow the ray's to move past against them on the hand, and the weird thing was one of the rays took a fancy to me and made repeat touches over and over again.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> There were a goodly number of people sunbathing on the beach, but only one or 2 folks actually in the water - hence it must be cold - now cold water was never something to scare me off having swum year after year on our annual holidays to the South African Cape at a town called Fish Hoek and also having swum albeit very briefly at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%B1a_del_Mar" target="_blank">Vina del Mar</a> in Chile, South America - The water was incredible, not too cold but enough for me to have 3 good swims before heading back to the apartment in time for dinner.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Up in the trees there are platforms that the walkways join onto, standing on these platforms you will invariably find a Parks person to whom you can direct questions on the flora and fauna found there, I even got treated to a very illuminating explanation on how the platforms are attached to the trees and the importance of the health and safety of the trees </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so it came to pass that all good things must come to an end, and I started the return trip to South Africa.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Continuing on from my <a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2016/05/a-birthday-of-note.html" target="_blank">Birthday of Note</a>, I redeemed a voucher Pam gave me for my birthday - <a href="http://chocolatestudio.co.za/" target="_blank">The Lindt Chocolate course</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And now for a bit of a conundrum so let me reverse here a tad, I am not a cook and am not really interested in doing actual cooking, but I am a Master-chef fanatic and in my head I can nap and drizzle and jus, roux, add height and quenelle along with the best and discourse quite eloquently on the subject</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But making cheese and now chocolate really grab my attention, so Pam gave me a voucher for us to attend the chocolate course at the <a href="http://chocolatestudio.co.za/" target="_blank">Johannesburg Lindt chocolate studio</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The reason the gift was for me but for both of us, is I want experiences as gifts, and the experience must if possible be for us to do together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So on a Saturday morning we arrived at the studio for a 4 hour class in Chocolate Tempering, Decor & Molding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then it was on to making chocolate cigars, basically you smear chocolate onto the slab, let it cool a bit and scrape up with a palette knife to form them</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Happy Birthday Time..... now this is an unfortunate thing that seems to crop up once a year with committed regularity, unless you are like a friend of mine who is a Leap Year baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I say it crops up once a year which is probably very good any more would be cause for severe problems for my wife Pam.... reason for this; she never has a clue what to get me, and I'm no help because I don't know what I want either, I'm more into experiences than gifts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So comes along 2016 and Pam has a brilliant idea, lets turn my entire birthday into a bit of time away filled with experiences.... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This was done in the form of 10 days away in <a href="http://www.zulu.org.za/" target="_blank">Kwa-Zulu Natal</a> - 8 days at Ballito and 2 days in the Natal Midlands.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So it started with a nice relaxed drive from Johannesburg down to Balitto approximately 615km which should take about 6 hours - we push closer to 8 hours - got to stop and see everything along the way, I think we were dogs in a past life.... got to sniff every blade of grass we pass.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But now to the main event.....We stayed in a stunning rented apartment right on the beach front called Ballito Sands, it couldn't have been better if it tried hard. You get up in the morning wander out onto the balcony with tea and rusks and watch the sun come up and watch the dolphins swimming past or watch the shark net guys out on their boat checking and repairing the shark nets, then off for an early morning walk along the beach before settling down on the beach for a day of sun and swimming.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I must explain something at this point, we go to Ballito during Autumn/Winter as it is a bit cooler than Summer; summer is incredibly humid with temperatures in the 30-35C while Autumn/Winter is about 22-25C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But back to the birthday:- Pam's gift(s) were in the form of daily vouchers (sometimes 2) for something that I would really like, and the great thing about this is that she could participate with me, so each morning I would receive my voucher for the day to be redeemed that day or at some time in the near future.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When doing our beach walks no matter where in the country we always take along a plastic shopping bag or two and pick up bits of flotsam usually in the form of plastic that we find along the beach - every little bit helps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dinner at Fiamma - A short walk from our apartment saw us at the Coco De Mer Boutique Hotel and the <a href="http://fiammagrill.co.za/" target="_blank">Fiamma Gril</a>l restaurant for the most excellent seafood platter we have ever had.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On one of the nights we also went to another great restaurant for one of my favorite foods ..... Crab!! OMG it was incredible, almost to the point of usurping the famous one and only Singapore Chili Crab</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This was our activity pretty much everyday, autumn and winter on the North Coast of Natal is for me probably as close to paradise as I can get, the weather temperature is just right around 25C and the sea water is perfect for swimming at least three times a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">18 April 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/grannymousecountryhouseandspa/" target="_blank">Granny Mouse</a>'s is one of <b>THE</b> iconic country houses in South Africa and has long been a place we have had on our bucket, and I can assure it did not in anyway disappoint.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had originally booked for a garden room, but when they heard it was for my birthday we were upgraded to one of the river gorge view chalets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our dinner on the first night was up in the <a href="http://www.restaurants.co.za/granny-mouse-country-house-restaurant" target="_blank">Eaves restaurant</a>, it was a sumptuous d<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">égustation</span> menu</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the next day it was off into the Midlands meander for a drive around - that's why its the Midlands meander - you meander from art place to art place and try hard not to buy every bit of art you see, but we did stop off at <a href="http://www.ardmoreceramics.co.za/" target="_blank">Ardmore Ceramics</a> where we were given a personal tour of their workshops meeting the artists and then we just had to choose a piece to add to our art collection</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally the holiday came to an end but not before a final stop off at <a href="http://www.southafrica.net/blog/en/posts/entry/piggly-wiggly-country-village-kwazulu-natal-midlands" target="_blank">Piggly Wiggly</a> to do some shopping and pick up some beer for me (an excellent 12 pack of craft beer) and some wine for Pam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Piggly Wiggly to give a bit of background is an awesome little arts and crafts village located in the midlands, with interesting shops and nice eating spots, but above all has the most excellent wine shop that also has to best craft beer selection I have ever seen in one place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But it doesn't end there .... on the way back we stopped off in the town of Howick specifically to visit <a href="https://dragonfirebeads.com/" target="_blank">DragonFire</a> where they make and sell lampwork glass beads, I am going back there to do a short course in lampwork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have a desire to learn chocolate making so I still have one more voucher to go - for a day course at Lindt to get a "taster" for making chocolates and also Macaroons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And last but not least - The final voucher which we didn't get to do - the weather was just too good to leave the beach and drive inland - is for a zip-line canopy tour, this will happen on the next trip when I go for the lamp-work course</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had to re-work a Pink Jade pendant into a pendant and a ring - yes it sounds odd but it wasn't - the pendant had two stones in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The original pendant was almost in the shape of an inverted egg (fat side on the top with the big stone and pointy side with small stone at the bottom) I unfortunately, much to my chagrin didn't take a photo of the original pendant before chopping it up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, how I started o</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ff was to remove the small stone and chop off the bottom of the pendant </span>and then make a ring with the small stone inserted into it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I would move onto reworking the main part of the pendant with the large stone </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ring was easy, but the stone while small in the circumference was quite a tall stone and not having any access to lapidary tools I could not take the height down a bit, but it still made for a nice unusual ring</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Re-working the main pendant now proved to be a bit of an issue, the pendant had a twisted wire finish around the edge that I wanted to try and save, but trying to get the edge of the pendant nice and even and also replace the twisted wire all without damaging the stone was to prove to be an exercise in futility or stupidity - you pick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you will see in the photo below the twisted wire just did not look nice and the more I tried to correct it the worse it got, so a decision was made..... redo</span></div>
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-48321587426585374142016-04-24T10:24:00.001+02:002016-07-22T14:24:02.628+02:00Infinity Pendant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To say I've been lazy is an understatement, well maybe not only lazy but also a bit of makers block, now this is very similar to writers block but different in that writers don't know what to write, I on the other hand hand tons of ideas oozing from the primordial swamp that is my brain but couldn't bring my self to go down to my workshop and put fingers to metal.... okay okay so maybe laziness had a bit to do with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well It has finally come to an end.... I Hope......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I also have to catch-up with my blog which has also stagnated since our trip to Singapore .... may this is the writers block of the whole issue.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Which brings me to new pieces of jewellery made:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My cousin Andrew and his wife Val had a baby, well lets not get too far ahead of ourselves..... at the time of designing and making the forthcoming pendant they were due to have a baby ...... in February ........ but then as quoted from: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173072" target="_blank">To</a></span><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173072" target="_blank"> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mouse,”</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">by</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Robert</span> </a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173072" target="_blank">Burns</a></span> - <span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">“The</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">best</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">laid</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">schemes</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">o'</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">mice</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">an'</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">men</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> / </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Gang aft </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">a-gley.” ..... but I digress a bit.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">The baby was due in February a month that just so happens to be the birth month of Val, so the design went something like this:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Andrew wanted to give her an infinity sign pendant</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">With an Amethyst stone in it... February ...... birthstone......</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">And here is the first laughable attempt at drawing a design on a Samsung phone, neither of us it turns out is making any serious attempts to unseat Michelangelo or anyone's 3 year old child for that matter....</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">So I start seriously putting something together and I came up with a design incorporating to bars on one side of the infinity representing Val and Andrew, the Amethyst then represents the baby...... being born .... in February</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">So work continues on the pendant, the stone is 3mm by 4mm pear shaped - really really tiny and I am not a setter, but as it is with bumblebees who can fly........</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">I made a small setting for the stone, well actually a few small settings, one was the wrong size, one did a flight of a bumble bee off across the workshop never to be seen again and one was just right although it also tried a half-hearted escape attempt as well, but it duly</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> got soldered into position, the stone got set and the pendant got its final polish....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The days ticked past and yes you guessed it February became March, but unfortunately the Amethyst did not become an Aquamarine... maybe one day....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No Visit to Singapore is complete without a going to the Marina Sands Hotel, the following are a set of photos showing the hotel and the views from the Sands SkyPark Observation Deck</span></div>
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-28322024255562022912015-12-23T15:00:00.000+02:002016-01-13T09:57:08.844+02:00Singapore is a .... Fine City - Sentosa Island<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then it was off to Sentosa Island and the <a href="http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-9474-sofitel-singapore-sentosa-resort-and-spa/index.shtml" target="_blank">Sofitel Hotel</a> for a bit of beach and sea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Arrived and straight away got changed and walked to the beach for a swim in the sea </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then back to the hotel for a relax and swim at the pool </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and partake of a a beer. We found the food and drink as usual very very expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walked back down to Tanjong beach, then to Palawan beach. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A monsoon storm hit so we had to stay there a little longer and have lunch at Bora Bora Beach restaurant - Laska and chicken rice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What struck us about the Hotel was the attention to detail - frogs and fish on lights, chair with no legs, small detailed sculptures in the rooms, Stunning sea views for breakfast, everywhere you looked something was placed to catch the eye</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back on bus 3 to the adventure park. We started off the day slowly with a Sky Ride (Ski lift to the top of the Luge starting point, basically it is a garden bench hanging off a cable) What fun! and I got to learn a whole lot of new swear words from Pam whom I have to inform is terrified of heights, couldn't have been to bad however as we rode it twice and luge'd twice. Pam drove down the luge like an old lady while I recklessly zoomed down - but then again how is one supposed to do it if not hell for leather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What a blow, down came the rain again curtailing further adventure and language instruction, so went to a pub called Mamba for a drink or 2 - Pam is now ready ..... I think...... for the Mega Zip Line or Zippy Meg Line as she now calls it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pam took one look at the Mega Zip Line and chickened out (hmmmmmm....needed another drink or 2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So off I went alone to test the waters so to say. You get taken by golf cart to the top of a hill (an adventure ride all of its own), then you climb a multi-storey tower get your harness clipped onto the cable system, pushed out a door and off you go at about 60km per hour back down the mountain to the beach..... OMG.... AGAIN, AGAIN,AGAIN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So after a bit of convincing there was Pam and I harnessed up and back on the golf cart to the tower, It was rather high and again Pam nearly chickened out, but the young guy
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">..... OMG.... AGAIN, AGAIN,AGAIN - this time it was Pam so off we went back again and this
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">High tea at the Tiffin Room at Raffles
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We caught the MRT from Chinatown down to city hall and then strolled on to Raffles hotel were ee were escorted by the Raj to the amazing Tiffin room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All white and silver service, Harp playing in the background. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">again as everywhere in Singapore there were the beautiful Christmas decorations. Stunning service throughout the meal, but then again this is Raffles Amazing food - sandwiches, little cakes, dim sum, curry pies, fruit. Pam unfortunately hit the end so I had to bravely step up to the plate and enjoy her portions of the red velvet cupcakes, fruit cake and mince pie on top of
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was all washed it down with copious amounts of Darjeeling tea, a
Singapore sling and ended with a Vervian ice tea for me and lemon sky tea for Pam to assist with settling the digestion. As a high tea officiondo I have to say this was superb and
sublime. So very colonial. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Caught the MRT to the <a href="http://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en.html" target="_blank">Gardens by the Bay</a>. Wow!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The attraction
was awesome. Firstly we went to the flower dome. The theme was Christmas Wonderland.
There were gardens from Australia, South Africa, Chile. The baobabs were
amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They really know how to celebrate Christmas with amazing Christmas
decorations in abundance throughout the dome. This complemented the amazingly beautiful wooden sculptures all
over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the Flower Dome it was onto the second dome called <a href="http://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/the-gardens/cloud-forest/visitor-information.html" target="_blank">Cloud Forest</a> . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carnivorous plants created with LEGO</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weather was bad so could not go on the skywalk, so </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it was back to the hotel at 18:00 and another swim before heading out for dinner. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Again we went into China town to the China town seafood restaurant for chili crab and beer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And now experienced the first of many huge monsoon rain storms whilst we were there.</span></div>
Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-71483379189805514052015-12-23T11:00:00.000+02:002016-01-04T14:13:52.333+02:00Singapore is a .... Fine City - Scarlet Hotel, China Town, Raffles hotel and Singapore Slings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The holiday started out with us being fetched from the airport and transferred to the Scarlet hotel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thescarlethotels.com/singapore/my-story/" target="_blank">The Scarlet</a> by far lived up to our expectations. Views not so good as it was in a street in China town, the room while small was very comfortable with stunning bathroom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The interesting thing about the hotel, it is a row of restored 1868 shop houses and an 1924 Art Deco building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The hotel "travels" gracefully down a slight hill that curves to the left, so when you are inside walking to or from your room you also go up or downhill curving slightly left or right depending on direction of travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We arrived at the hotel at 7:00 a.m. showered and left to
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We walked through China Town unfortunately the stalls were not open as yet so we caught
MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) to Orchard Rd. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was extremely hot and humid but not to be perturbed we proceeded to walk the whole
length of Orchard to Plaza Singapura. Then went to
Clarke Quay and had fish dumpling soup with noodles in a food court. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For us we found things a bit pricey having to X by 10, South Africa has a VERY weak currency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As it was so hot we then proceeded to Sque at Clarke quay overlooking the
river for a couple of beers, a trend to follow for the rest of the trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the end of the day we were a bit tired from the flight the night before so we caught the MRT and walked back to the hotel via the hustle and bustle of China Town. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was followed by a nice relaxing swim in the hotels jacuzzi and and ended up sleeping on the loungers by the pool for a while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pam by this point was going on for 36 hours no sleep by this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> We only ate breakfast in the hotel as we opted to rather eat out on the streets in China town or in the hawker markets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The breakfast was a standard English breakfast (very good and substantial) but I could also indulge in an eastern breakfast called <a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Congee-Rice-Porridge" target="_blank">Congee</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> We were not destined to stay in our room for the entire stay as we discovered a rather unpleasant smell of cigarette smoke permeating the room, so after initially trying an ozone machine they moved us with an upgrade to our second room</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a refreshing swim and not to waste any available minute it was back out onto the streets off on the MRT to Raffles hotel. </span><br />
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at the Long bar. It is their 100th anniversary. Such a treat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There was a little girl with her family at the next table who was given a fruit punch that look the same as a Singapore Sling - such attention to detail to make all their</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> guests feel at home. We ate peanuts and
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then it was back on the MRT to Chinatown to have dinner at the China town seafood restaurant. Stunning atmosphere and vibe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-41112669044042028352015-12-23T10:00:00.000+02:002016-01-13T10:12:41.855+02:00Singapore is a .... Fine City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Singapore is a .... Fine City......But what a city it is!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We decided to visit Singapore for a quick break before Christmas. For us, from past visits it has always been an incredibly beautiful and extremely clean city - well actually coming from Africa anything is clean - but this is CLEAN!!, and our visit this time it proved to be even more beautiful than before.</span><br />
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To start this trip began in a rather unusual way, both Pam and I wanted to go somewhere, we didn't have much time and we didn't really know where to go.</span><br />
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After much brainstorming we decided on Singapore as we hadn't been for a while.</span><br />
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So normally Pam would hit the keyboard and mouse and start surfing up a storm, booking flights and hotels etc. but this time she didn't have the energy after a long tough year; so we called <a href="http://www.pentravel.co.za/" target="_blank">Pentravel</a> travel agents and gave them our requirements, and so we were off.</span><br />
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We flew Singapore airlines (I know why they are one of the top airlines in the world) and then stayed at 2 absolutely amazing hotels, The Scarlet hotel in Chinatown and then the Sofitel on Sentosa Island.</span><br />
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So firstly .... How do you eat an elephant.... One mouthful at a time ..... </span><br />
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So what I have decided to do this time on the blog to break the reading into manageable chunks.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2015/12/singapore-is-fine-city-scarlet-hotel.html" target="_blank">Singapore is a .... Fine City - Scarlet Hotel, China Town, Raffles hotel and Singapore Slings</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2016/01/singapore-is-fine-city-gardens-on-bay.html" target="_blank">Singapore is a .... Fine City - Gardens on the Bay</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2016/01/singapore-is-fine-city-raffles-hotel.html" target="_blank">Singapore is a .... Fine City - Raffles Hotel and High Tea in the Tiffin Room</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2015/12/singapore-is-fine-city-sentosa-island.html" target="_blank">Singapore is a .... Fine City - Sentosa Island</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2016/01/singapore-is-fine-city-marina-sands.html" target="_blank">Singapore is a .... Fine City - Marina Sands Hotel</a></span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-38789388913464822562015-10-16T16:09:00.002+02:002015-11-10T14:00:10.634+02:00It's been awhile since my last missive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well its been a fair while since my last missive, this is for a number of reasons and they all begin and end with..... I was lazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Actually it could be deeper than that; you may or may not have heard the stats that women speak about <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2281891/Women-really-talk-men-13-000-words-day-precise.html" target="_blank">30,000 words a day</a>, well I think I get issued with about 5,000 a year and when they are finished up I go silent until the next issuance of words.... or we could revert to ..... I was lazy!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So now that I have something to say (read Not Lazy) let's do a bit of catchup; and while this may happen in no particular order to start I will try to get them in sequence at the finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1045741919590862368#editor/target=post;postID=7137548205813016417;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=1;src=postname" target="_blank">So.... I had to go back to Malawi to do the final shutdown of the I.T. side of one of our projects</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.co.za/2015/10/life-is-long-and-winding-road-trip.html" target="_blank">Then we did another long and winding road trip round South Africa - see blog entry.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jeep is still being worked on, got it back for one day from the restorers and the engine failed dismally, not too sure what exactly went wrong, something to do with bent valves .... blah blah blah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1045741919590862368#editor/target=post;postID=5945999759779723478;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=2;src=postname" target="_blank">This was followed by a visit to the Cradle of Mankind to see the Homo Naledi skeleton, yes you got it, see the blog entry.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1045741919590862368#editor/target=post;postID=4319759422372334097;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=1;src=postname" target="_blank">Then back to Cardiff for work and other activities .... see blog entry</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And finally a new foray into some more jewellery I have started making, yes I am back at the bench after an inordinate period, lets hope I can keep up the momentum.</span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-43197594223723340972015-09-27T11:56:00.000+02:002015-10-31T19:57:53.910+02:00And back to Cardiff I went....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And back to Cardiff I went....</span><br />
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I have come to a rather serious conclusion, Wales could quite easily become my new home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although I live in South Africa Scotland will ALWAYS be my ancestral home, but now I have discovered Wales....... This SHOULD be home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Having traveled for work to Cardiff a couple times, I have always loved the freedom and safety of walking around a city, that I would never do in Johannesburg.</span><br />
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This time my friends and colleagues Anthony Lloyd and Eleri Hallett took me out to experience more of the country, and what an epic experience that was.</span><br />
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Firstly I was treated to a lifetime experience - this being the Wales - Fiji Rugby World Cup game in the <a href="http://www.millenniumstadium.com/" target="_blank">Millennium Stadium Cardiff</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The crowds were massive on the way to the stadium, so we had to make a couple of stops at a couple of pubs on the way, to re-hydrate..... actually just to have a couple of beers en-route.......it was a long walk to the stadium after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> After the match it was time for a celebratory drink before heading onto the <a href="http://chapel1877.com/" target="_blank">Chapel Restaurant</a> for Dinner</span><br />
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<br />During the week Anthony took me out to an awesome little town called <a href="http://cowbridgeguide.co.uk/" target="_blank">Cowbridge</a> for Spanish Tapas dinner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However as it would happen, while we were driving along I noticed quite a bit of what looked suspiciously like some sort of farm type "detritus" on the road that went on for a fair distance. So I mentioned to Anthony that it looked very much like a huge herd of cows had wandered down the road <strike>crapping</strike> <strike>pooping</strike> defecating merrily as they went.... as cows do - his answer was - yes they moved the cows from one field to another....... well that was like a herd of cows being moved through one of our suburbs ....... I want to move there !!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Comes Friday afternoon it was off for the weekend in the country, firstly we drove out of Cardiff to <a href="http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html" target="_blank">Raglan Castle</a>, I have a total weakness for all things archaeological, and castles in particular (especially if there is a tower to ascend)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Step 1: start out on a small walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dinner at the <a href="http://www.thehardwick.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hardwick</a> - every trip I have ever done has involved the consumption of excellent food, and the meal at the Hardwick prepared by Chef Stephen Terry was by no means the exception.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then for a bit of superb relaxing bit of boating on the canals with <a href="http://www.beaconparkdayboats.co.uk/" target="_blank">Beacon Park Day Boats</a> with Eleri our intrepid Skipper in control of the boat</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then on to another castle - Caerphilly Castle, this is the second biggest castle in the United Kingdom after Windsor Castle, with a number of great towers to ascend. This visiting of castles can be a rather vigorous pastime, as it doesn't just involve a quiet stroll, although for the more energetically challenged that is a great activity, for me as I have previously said involved a lot and I mean a LOT of climbing up and down towers.</span><br />
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The shear scale of these edifices is incredible, especially taking into account that the stone was quarried by hand, then hauled to the site and then the castle was built by hand, no nice little bulldozers, <a href="https://www.google.co.za/search?q=tlb&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CEMQ7AlqFQoTCM2899it7MgCFYS9FAod0EMLhw&biw=1366&bih=681" target="_blank">TLB's</a> and no <a href="https://www.google.co.za/search?q=liebherr+cranes&sa=X&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=681&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0CE4QsARqFQoTCPvP8Ymu7MgCFYhGFAod2g4Nug" target="_blank">Liebherr cranes </a> , just plain simple hard labour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never climb around on old castles where there is no access allowed, you will come to a sticky end, the stonework if not adequately restored could crumble.</span><br />
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Fortunately at Caerphilly Castle there is a brave statue holding up a very precariously leaning tower</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back to London for the day - a bad day in London is way better than a good day in Johannesburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Took the tube down to Westminster and then walked to my hearts content down the Thames to St. Paul's and back, stopping off to gather some atmosphere* from the beach on the Thames along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* Atmosphere - I like to collect bits of stuff when I travel, this does NOT include touristy gifts, but rather some object I find on the ground ( a found object), a stone, a bit of metal, a bit of broken tile, basically anything that "speaks" to me to remind me of the trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From London it was onto a veritable Flight into Hell back to South Africa........</span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-59459997597797234782015-09-25T20:06:00.000+02:002015-10-16T20:07:48.696+02:00Cradle of Mankind, Maropeng and Homo Naledi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is a bit of history etc for those of us who are interested in archaeology and particularly paleontology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will also combine 2 visits to Maropeng and the Cradle of Mankind into one blog entry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To start off with a bit of background information, The Cradle of Mankind as we know it, is located about about 28km from where I live and 50 km from Johannesburg, so it makes for a really nice easy outing to go and visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Cradle of Mankind has the <a href="http://the%20sterkfontein%20caves%20%E2%80%93%20maropeng%20%E2%80%93%20official%20visitor%20centre/" target="_blank">Sterkfontein caves</a> and other caves located in the environs and this is is where such famous fossils such as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Ples" target="_blank">Mrs. Ples</a>" and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Foot" target="_blank">little foot</a>" bones (<i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Australopithecus africanus) </i>were found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now back to the recent future approx 2 years ago in this area an new set of skeletons have been discovered in the Rising Star cave, it has been named <a href="http://www.wits.ac.za/homonaledi/" target="_blank">Homo Naledi</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The bones were recently put on display at the <a href="http://www.maropeng.co.za/" target="_blank">Maropeng centre</a> - a large interactive museum and visitor display facility, making for a viewing experience of a lifetime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have previously visited the centre for me to gather tons more information on mans very early ancestors, I have a passion for archaeology and paleontology, and my long suffering wife Pam happily goes along with me while I gather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As it would come to pass we decided to do another long and winding road trip to Wilderness and back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wilderness being a small town on the Garden Route along the coast in the Western Cape.</span><br />
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But having said that, the trip is not a mad dash to the coast as is the proclivity of so many South Africans, but rather a long sedate drive making numerous stops along the way to look, see, relax and of course eat lots of good food.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />In summary the whole trip went something like this.... </span><br />
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Leave Johannesburg drive to Gariep dam 584 km - stop for the night;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive on the next day to a town called Nieu Bethesda 231km - stop for a couple of nights;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive to Graaf Reinett 54 km (would hate to over do it) - stop for a couple of nights to celebrate Pam's sister Heathers 70th Birthday;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive to Wilderness 357 km- stop for a couple of days;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive to Arniston 320 km - Stop for a couple of days;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive to Prince Albert 426 km - stop for a night;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive to Gariep Dam 547 km- stop for a night;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drive onwards to Johannesburg 584 km - stop for a while - start planning next trip.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Total Journey distance with bits in between 3718 km</span><br />
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You may notice a trend here, we don't do very long distances between places - as this makes for a very pleasant journey </span><br />
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Gariep dam and the de Stijl hotel is always a first stop for us on any drive to the Western Cape which I've written about it in other entries - feel free to go back and view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a tiny little town of approximately 68 permanent residents, but it is also the location of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_House" target="_blank">Owl House</a>; a museum that I cannot ever miss when visiting there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This time however we got to meet new people and make new friends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We stayed over at the excellent <a href="http://theibislounge.co.za/" target="_blank">Ibis lounge B&B</a> where we incidentally also also had our dinners, then visited the owl house, went on the paleontology tour - another of my must do's when there, Ive done it so often i could probably take the tour myself now, and of course a visit to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Brewery-and-Two-Goats-Deli-134730096560303/" target="_blank">Brewery and two goats Deli</a> for a beer or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then met <a href="http://www.charmainehaines.co.za/" target="_blank">Charmaine Haines</a> a well known ceramicist and her husband Martin, we just had to acquire one of Charmaine's exquisite works of art to add to our burgeoning collection</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then it was onward a whole 54 km to Graaf Reinet for a couple of days to visit Pam's sister Heather and her husband Vos and their family, and also to celebrate Heather's 70th birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While were in Graaf Reinet we went for a drive to see the Valley of Desolation and drive around the Camdeboo National Park, this isn't a predator park, but we did have have a nice viewing offering of kudu, springbok, gemsbok, eland, blesbok, vervet
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Out on the road again for a bit of a long haul (357 km - by now we are well into the trip and getting lazy) down to Wilderness via the <a href="http://www.mountainpassessouthafrica.co.za/find-a-pass/western-cape/item/142-prince-alfreds-pass-part-1.html" target="_blank">Prince Alfred's pass</a> at <span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">68 km it is the longest mountain pass in South Africa, joining the towns of Knysna and Uniondale</span></span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We get to Wilderness and drive around a bit a</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nd walk on the beach a bit</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">looking at various B&B's that grab our fancy, then decide on one and phone them, the call went something like this:</span><br />
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Me: Good afternoon, do you have any accommodation for 2 people the next 4 nights</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B&B Manager: Yes certainly can I go ahead and reserve it for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: That will be great thank you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B&B Manager: When can we expect you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: Oh... in about 5 minutes....</span><br />
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We then got out the car and walked in the door of <a href="http://www.thedune.co.za/" target="_blank">The Dune Guest Lodge</a>; we couldn't have picked a better guest house if we tried hard. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next couple of days were a lot of walking up and down the beach eating at some amazing restaurants and generally just taking it very easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Breakfasts were a gastronomic occasion, before the main course after the fruit 6 - 8 freshly cooked pancakes arrived at the table, needless to say I couldn't see myself letting any of them go to waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our room had the most fantastic deck in front where we could relax with a nice bottle of wine after a hard day of walking on the beach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However as is our want comes the day we are due to leave and we wander down to reception - "do they perchance have space for another night or so" so and so it was we stayed a tad longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We did a number of walks up and down the beach, sometimes ending up at the View's hotel for either lunch or drinks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While on these walks and for that matter any walk we do I have a desire to make small cairns to leave behind.</span><br />
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During our stay we also popped up the coast to the town of Knysna for the day to have a look around.</span><br />
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But all to soon it had to all came to an end and off we went again down the long winding road -320 km- to a town called Arniston and the <a href="http://www.arnistonhotel.com/" target="_blank">Arniston Hotel</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the way we stopped off at yet another small seaside town called Witsand to see the whales, at this time of year the entire length of the coast has whales.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Again while there we popped off to another little town called Napier to have a look see, then my sister Marganne her husband Brian and daughter Robyn drove up from Cape Town for the day to visit us and have some lunch. </span><br />
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Had a most interesting dinner, called a pint of prawns while we were there, it consisted of a 500ml beer mug filled with prawns and a salad on the side</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eventually our time at Arniston had to come to an end and it was onto <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Agulhas" target="_blank">Agulhas to see the southern most tip of Africa</a>, driving through the most amazing countryside of vast fields of barley and canola.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This basically meant the final backup of all the data off the servers, then shutting them down, packaging them up and shipping it all back to our Head Office in South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it was a journey round the final 2 site offices and consolidate all the equipment at one office and do the backups - a long slow mind numbing job watching data copy off the servers onto external NAS drives (Network Attached Storage - for those of you interested in I.T) and then returning to South Africa with the data while the rest of the equipment following behind - a task that took many months due to incompetent customs bureaucracy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Foundations of demolished accommodations</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">80 km of road to the next camp</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Section of the railway line</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Accommodations at the next camp</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My "office" for 18 hours a day for nearly a week </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What remained on site for the final close out - three data centers reduced to a couple of NAS drives </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During the project 2 of our staff got malaria and died, but that was not during my time there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I was there one of the staff got infected and I was treated at 2am in the morning to a first hand view of the effects of malaria, the fever and hallucinations the chap endured right through the night before I could get him medical attention. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rule Number 3:</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Take your malaria tablets, use a bug repellant ALL DAY, sleep under a mosquito net at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Following this sojourn out in the bush, which I have to say was remarkably reminiscent of my years doing military service, I returned to Blantyre to lay over for a night before heading back to South Africa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was dreaming about the nice bed and dinner I was going to experience at my favorite Malawi hotel the <a href="http://www.hotelsone.com/blantyre-hotels-mw/sunbird-mount-soche-hotel.html?as=g&aid=8659479878&dsti=119659&dstt=8&label=ggehoeu-bh119659&akw=mount%20soche%20hotel%20blantyre&asrc=Search&ast=&gclid=CJeW6vO4tLgCFQ_LtAodQXEAkQ" target="_blank">Mount Soche Hotel</a>, but it was sadly not to be, I was lodged in a B&B.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I won't go into too much detail on this suffice it to say it was probably the most awful experiences of my life as the below photo's will attest, needless to say it will be a proverbial cold day in hell before I go back there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so too did this phase of my working life end, the project is finished, our offices are shut down, the equipment is back in South Africa, and it is ever onward to new adventures.</span><br />
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Hammer and Tongshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027656099142498476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045741919590862368.post-53364664029220799722015-03-14T21:07:00.000+02:002015-03-14T21:07:15.810+02:00Jeep reborn and Storage Wars......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once upon a time long long long ago I purchased a 1975 CJ5 Jeep, it was in 1983 to be precise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I loved my Jeep, I drove it everywhere which over time led to a couple of interesting adventures and then came the end and she was relegated to a storage garage No.85.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But before I continue let me go way back and relate a few interesting incidents surrounding her........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Petrol Incident(s)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I drove the Jeep daily, to work to the shops basically everywhere, but it had one teeny weeny problem, the petrol gauge didn't work, so I contrived a method of ascertaining how much petrol was in the tank, incidentally this here Jeep is a straight 6 3.8 litre engine so it is a tad thirsty and I couldn't always afford to fill it up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So back to the method of gauging the petrol I contrived what shall hereto forth be known as the dipstick method; i.e. i stuck a dipstick down into the tank to see how far up it was wet.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nice solution until the day (and there were many) that I got it wrong and I would run out of petrol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now this was before the days of cellphones (can you believe it we didn't have cell phones once upon a time) so I would foot it around until I could beg or borrow the use of a phone from a kind shop owner or householder or I could find a payphone, and I would phone my then girlfriend Pam (now my wife - she didn't learn fast that me and the Jeep were a troubled pair) to bring me a jerry can of petrol and off we went again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Hartbeespoort incident</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then came the disastrous day that will always be etched into the annuls of history as ....Hartbeespoort Dam day; <a href="http://www.places.co.za/html/hartbeespoort-dam.html" target="_blank">Hartbeespoort Dam</a> is a large irrigation and water sports dam near Johannesburg and Pretoria, well, I managed to sink my Jeep in a small river feeding the dam through a combination of stupidity and ... oh stupidity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This incident I must confess led to great hilarity on the part of my brother in law Brian, and the burnt clutch of his brother Jimmy's car who assisted in the recovery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The incident was made worse by the fact that every loose object that was in the jeep now became floating debris - papers, tapes (before cd's) chip packets, that surrounded the Jeep like a halo, it looked like the sinking of the Titanic, minus iceberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a day of blood sweat and tears during the recover, I took the now waterlogged Jeep home parked it in the garage and proceeded to strip it down to the last nut and bolt and clean everything, and I mean everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It took a year to accomplish this task, and included a welcome or not so welcome small box of unnecessary nuts and bolts left over, but the Jeep carried on merrily - still with its rather consistent thirst and occasional stoppage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Smashed bell Housing Incident</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then there was a very unfortunate incident of the smashed bell housing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were dropping some stuff off at the home of a friend of Pam's mom when their psychotic son let their psychotic vicious rottweiler loose on us as we were reversing out the drive in an open Jeep (I often drove with the roof off or the doors off).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On exiting the property at excessive speed and not wanting to just storm out onto the road I did a very sharp turn onto the verge whence stood a large psychotic rock...... over it we went and smash went the cast aluminium bell housing, fortunately I was still in gear so we could keep reversing back up the road to Pam's house where the Jeep was deposited on her verge until I could find a mechanic who could do the repairs (I had walked back down the road and gathered up all the shattered pieces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The story ends well, the local garage had an ex-aircraft mechanic who could weld aluminium, so repairs were duly carried out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Underberg Incident (Trip)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Underberg incident wasn't so much an incident as a trip with a couple of minor incidents thrown in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friends of ours Mandy and Owen had an uncle who owned a pretty derelict farm in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underberg,_KwaZulu-Natal" target="_blank">Underberg (you can read all about the Underberg here)</a> and they invited us to go down for a week, it'll be great they said, its in an old farm house they said </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ......</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> It's GREEEEAAATTTTT ...</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no tents (see the next "<i>exciting"</i> story to come - You want me to camp in a What)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So off we trundled, (with Jerry cans of petrol and my faithful dipstick) Pam and I in the jeep and Mandy and Owen in a small Volkswagen Golf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once we got to the Underberg we then had to leave the main road and traverse approximately, give or take a kilometre or ten, twenty kilometers on gravel roads.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At least the roads were good, but the house.... oh my lordy lordy lordy, it was a wreck, I could have done with a tent, but the view and the peace and tranquility, it was awesome, until the incident of the snake..... dum dum dum dum duuuuuuuummmm...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We found a Cape Cobra under the porch and if there was one there were probably trillions of them waiting to savage us, well one of them chose to make the first attack so we unfortunately had to put an end to it before one of us got hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then the rains came and they came with a vengence, I must admit I got a tad concerned that the neighbors might start building a large wooden boat and start loading up animals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But the rains stopped and we headed for home, up gravel roads that were now transformed to mud baths.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mandy and Owen's car wasn't up to handling the mud so the Jeep towed and towed and towed until we arrived at a tree that had fallen in the road, again the Jeep was pressed into duty to pull said tree out of the way so that the journey could continue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Soon it was back onto the main road and onto the town of Harrismith were upon I was assailed by a debilitating migraine, Pam had to take over the driving from here on through pouring rain again, a task she handled admirably - I never mentioned previously - the Jeep is a three speed manual, with a comfortable top speed of about 110 km/hr - Johannesburg was a long way off and doesn't have auto-return on the steering so on turning a corner you have to turn the steering wheel back to centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then came the beginning of the end so to speak......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used to store the Jeep at my mother's house and would go and pick it up on the weekend to give it a run, but this became less and less, and then my mother passed away and the Jeep got moved .... into Storage garage No.85.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so she came to live out the next 13 years ensconced in the garage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This fact caused no amount of how shall I put it...."tension" between Pam and I, we stored junk there, we stored a trailer there, we stored my mother's stuff after she died..... and the years came and the years went.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Until the Great Storage War..... Pam threatened with bodily harm thrown in that if I didn't fix the Jeep or sell it, she would go there and cut the locks open the door and let it wander off on its own...........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Jeep is reborn</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two people were instrumental in the now forthcoming rebirth.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pam's nephew Roland is a Cobra car enthusiast who had a car rebuilt by a great mechanic by the name of Paul, and he said a long while ago that I should contact him to have the Jeep redone, but one thing led to another and time passed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then one weekend my cousin Andrew's wife Val's father Martin was chatting to me about a car he had restored by a great mechanic by the name of Paul whom I should get in touch with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Martin duly got me in touch with Paul and lo and behold it was the same mechanic who did Roland's car - so a date was arranged and the Jeep was dragged out of its cell (Garage No. 85) loaded up onto a trailer and taken away for the first stage in its rebirth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Camping ... those moments when........</span><br />
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Let me start by saying;</span><br />
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I dont camp today.......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I dont camp tomorrow... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I dont camp ever.........</span><br />
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I spent a couple of years living in army tents in the blazing 40C heat, then during flash floods wading around with your possessions in nearly knee deep water and still have to stand inspection, and sub 0C cold.</span><br />
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You're in the army now, have a blanket if it gets chilly and you can hear brass monkeys losing parts of their anatomies...</span><br />
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And that gives me the opportunity to impart some useless information:</span><br />
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The brass monkey that drops its balls is NOT a monkey, but rather a brass ring called a monkey that stood on the deck next to the cannons of early battleships, it held the round cannon balls (4 in a pile) and when it got real cold the brass would contract and the "balls" would fall off, hence freeze the balls off a brass monkey.</span><br />
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So back to the tent and the camping..... I dont camp...........</span><br />
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Pam: "We are going camping with Lynette & Struan, its Lynettes parents 60th Anniversary"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me: "NO, I dont Camp"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pam: " Yes, it'll be fun"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me: " NO"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pam: " Pleeeeaaasseeeee it'll be nice its a luxury tented camp"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me: " NO"</span><br />
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I can be a bit stubborn!</span><br />
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Anyhew, the story started because a friend of Pam - Lynette whose parents were celebrating their 60th Anniversary and the family invited us to share the celebration with them in an area called the <a href="http://www.waterberg.gov.za/" target="_blank">Waterberg</a> at a lodge in the mountains ... in a tent.....</span><br />
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And what a tent it was, definitely nothing like what I was used to, this was pure luxury, and in the bush, my favourite place to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During Saturday we took a drive down to the dam where we indulged in some water sports with canoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then the party that night - a great affair with Lynette's Parents and family with an awesome dinner in the main dining room at the lodge.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Boma at our tent</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inside the tent</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once upon a time Long Long ago I used to make jewellery ... well so it seems, it was months ago since my last real foray at my bench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then along comes a friend of Pam's who has a rather exquisite piece of Amber with a mosquito embedded in it, she requested that I make a piece of jewellery for her to show off the Amber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was no small request....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I decided to make a bracelet and thus made an attempt at drawing out a design.... it wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, I felt like I had the equivalent of writer's block.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So the months went by and nothing came to mind, and frustration crept in to the point where i was just going to send the Amber back and slink away AGAIN with my tail between my legs (another story for another time).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But as the time came closer to delivery date and Pam started making polite suggestion noises along the lines of "I'm going to sell your workshop if you don't start doing something again" I decided it was rather recommended to at least make an attempt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe the gods would smile on me and pass down a bit of inspiration....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it was to the bench we went with my pathetic excuse for a drawing and a batch/bunch/load of silver </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so let the first melt of many begin.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is nothing I feel more daunting than the first ingot pour when getting started</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then the rolling begins and annealing and rolling etc etc to make the setting, I decided to start with the setting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a. To get me started and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> So then I decide to make some 2mm wire and start playing with ideas, this is usually an expensive (time) way to do it as I will spend lots of time making wire and/or plate , test experimental ideas, end up with a pile of off cuts, melt it all down again and repeat.... a couple of times</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But so an idea slowly starts to materialise in my head, and it doesn't look at all bad, rough but not bad.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe ... just maybe this thing will happen....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By now however my once pristine blank slate of a bench is looking like a war zone...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It doesn't get any better, but parts of the bracelet are starting to appear</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So all in all I hope this has successfully got me out of the doldrums and back to work, albeit after the christmas break as I have yet a bit more travelling to do, places to go food to eat and people to meet.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I live in South Africa and was born in South Africa my family originate from Scotland and I have always felt the UK and Scotland to be my REAL home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why haven't I emigrated ....... well that is a looonnggg story for another time.</span><br />
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So back to the post at hand, I have recently been to Cardiff for business but at the same time I always build in a bit of time for myself.</span><br />
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Lets start in London.......OH but let me digress a little bit at this point - I love the cold, I live in Africa where it is hot and when it isn't hot it is DAMN HOT, even in winter it is hot, maybe a bit cool but never cold, well that is for me anyway. </span><br />
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So as i said.... I started in London, I didn't take sunscreen or short sleeve shirts because it is cold.... <i>reeaaallly???</i>...... it was 24C on the day I got there, I walked london flat with my jacket over my arm getting burnt to a crisp doing some sightseeing - saw a big blue <strike>chicken</strike> cockerel and then .......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why a Picture of Pret A Manger; when Pam and I first went together to the UK it was frightfully expensive to eat (actually it is now even more so as our rather dubious currency is now sitting at time of writing R 18.00 to the Pound) and so I decided to have a sandwich for lunch for old times sake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then it was back to Paddington station and the train to Cardiff.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Accommodations were at the <a href="http://www.thistle.com/en/hotels/united_kingdom/cardiff/thistle_cardiff_city_centre/index.html" target="_blank">Parc Thistle Hotel</a> on Queens Street which was perfect in that it was literally 2 minutes from the office and right in the centre of all the goings on in Cardiff CBD and as well as it was an excellent hotel to stay at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Comes the first morning for work and I decide to go for a quick 15 minute stroll round town before going into the office, I've been to Cardiff before so know my way around a bit well I thought I did..... until this very moment ...... I spiralled into the twilight zone..... I made lost people look found.... I didnt have my city map with me, and the morning stroll turned into a sweating heaving route march to get back to the hotel to shower AGAIN and change AGAIN to make it to the office just in time for work - note to self.... never forget map again.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was all Work.... Work..... Work for the next couple of days.... However in the evenings I did get to bob around the town a bit and start preparing my shopping list... woe betide the husband that travels overseas and doesn't return bearing gifts as is written above the gates of hell... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28Dante%29" target="_blank">Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But comes the weekend and I had my sightseeing shoes on and it was off to Cardiff Bay for the day, I had heard it was a bit of a way out of town and while you could walk one should probably catch a bus, well who was I to baulk at a walk, so walk it was ..... weather was great - 22C and clear and off I went, it was quite a walk but really good to be out and active.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What a pleasant experience the Bay proved to be, a wide open <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl_Plass" target="_blank">Roald Dahl Plass</a> with restaurants and exquisite architecture, <a href="http://www.mermaidquay.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mermaid quay</a>, the Senedd building, Wales Millenium building, The Pierhead Building, Norwegian Church and much more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So after a great day out i'm back at the hotel and need to buy a bottle of wine to take to a party I've been invited to that evening, so onto the internet to find an appropriate wine merchant who would be a purveyor of South African wines. And there just so happened to be one ...... JUST PAST CARDIFF BAY..... OH MY Gaaaawwddd I've just been there, no time to walk again, so onto a bus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Haven't a clue where i'm really going, so hop off the bus at the designated spot in the middle of the suburbs and no store, wander around for a bit and eventually find it only to be told they only sell case lots ... that is 6 bottles.... I don't need 6 BOTTLES, just 2 - why the hell didn't they tell me that when I phoned them . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I ask where can I get some nearby - I'm running out of time at this point - just pop round the corner he says 2 minutes away.... yes by car it is... on foot its 15 minutes away.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now lets consider this; I caught the No. 9 bus from the CBD so logic tells me I should catch the No. 9 back; now coming from South Africa I NEVER EVER catch a bus .... EVER, so I am not too familiar with the whole process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sooooo i'm at the bus stop and the No.308 bus pulls in, stands for a bit, I look at the driver... the driver looks at me and then off it goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now; I don't know if I mentioned I am running out of time; so I ask a lady standing in the bus shelter when the next N0. 9 bus is coming through.... she looks at me like I am the village idiot and points to an LED display on the side of the bus shelter displaying all the buses coming and their relative minutes to arrive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But there is no No. 9 listed yet and the conversation goes something like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me: "There isnt a No. 9 Bus listed will one be coming along?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lady: "Well why didnt you catch the No. 308?" The same one that I just stared at!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me: "I came on the No. 9 so I must go back on it" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me, actually the village idiot: " No I came on the No.9 so ..." ...bit of a pause... "OK so when does the No. 308 or 9B come?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lady (with sad look on face) pointing to the LED sign: "Why wait for them when the No.9 is coming in 10 minutes" (it had just appeared on the list) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Village Idiot: " Riiiigghhhtttt"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally I am back sweating like a wild pig in a stampede, stop for a quick beer with my collegue from Cardiff at the Corner House pub and then off to the hotel to wash and change, it had by now cooled down a bit - just enough to wear a jacket but when storming around the town I get hot very hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so off to a really good party......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Interesting aside around the party... the persons house who was holding the function is located on an old Roman village so they are not allowed to dig down to make flower beds, they have to make boxes above ground level and fill them with soil to make flower beds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Comes Sunday morning and the day is a wild chase around town doing shopping and visiting the Castle and more shopping until my feet want to fall off</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I started the day off with a visit to the <a href="http://madebyhand-wales.co.uk/" target="_blank">Made by Hand show at the Cardiff city Hall</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All I can say is that it was the most fantastic display of hand made artwork I have ever had the privilege of viewing, there was something for everyone no matter what your interest and tastes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also had the pleasure of meeting a jeweller Su Trindle aka <a href="http://quercussilver.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Quercussilver</a> whom I follow on twitter and also to meet a whole host of other fascinating people and view their work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On two occasions we also had dinner at the most excellent Chapel 1877, it is a restaurant located in an old renovated chapel in Cardiff CBD, the food is excellent, the beer is excellent, the wine is excellent the ambiance is excellent, everything is excellent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All to soon it was back on the train to London and another stupid maneuver....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I hopped on "my train bound for london" but had trouble finding my seat so I sat in one of the unallocated ones and sat waiting for the train to go.... as it would be, the whistle blew and the conductor was closing the doors down the train when I happened to see an LED sign (i'm not too familiar with this LED sign thing going here) inside the compartment saying not London but .....NOTTINGHAM...... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">OHHH MY GAAAWWWDDDD.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I left up like a person possessed grabbed my luggage and threw myself out bodily, erupting from the door to the consternation of the conductor and numerous other commuters on the platform......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then finally off to London where as I am want to do; and given 5 minutes to myself I left my luggage in the luggage storage and headed for the underground and off to the tower of London to see the <a href="http://poppies.hrp.org.uk/" target="_blank">poppies at the Tower of London</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I knew about it from seeing it on the internet, but in no way could I have ever prepared myself for the epic display I got to see, but the most incredible part was the sheer vast amount of people who had turned out to see it as well and just how quiet everyone was while viewing it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But all in all it was the poppies, hundreds and thousands of them and I quote "888,246 ceramic poppies progressively filled the Tower's famous moat between 17 July and 11 November 2014. Each poppy represented a British military fatality during the war."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then back to Paddington station where I stopped and purchased a Paddington bear, off to pick up my lugagge and hop onto the Heathrow Express......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tum te tum te tum te....... OHHH MY GAAAWWWDDDD......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've left Paddington Bear at the luggage storage.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Repeat maneuver of erupting from the train hurtle down the platform, rescue Paddington and back for the next train, I have by this point turned myself back into a sweating stampeding wild pig.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lost teddy bears seem to be my forte.... <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://hammer-and-tongs.blogspot.com/2014/01/deja-vu-big-trek-home.html" target="_blank">Deja vu - The big trek home</a></span></span><br />
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And then with a very heavy heart it was all over and I was back at Heathrow Airport for the journey back to South Africa</span><br />
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