Monday and all that.

So yesterday I spent a good part of the morning up on the garage roof, stripping off metal strip tiling that has, over time, slipped. This has caused the wooden battens underneath to rot, causing the tiles to slip furthur..etc,etc. Nowt wrong with the original corrugated roof underneath other than nail holes and suspect timbering from the leaks let in by the strip tiles above... Such are the trails of buying a big old fixer-upper. The holes can wait till next week, my back started protesting so the idea of crawling around the roof patching them dulled somewhat, we get no rain this time of year anyway (normally!). The pic, why the sun streaming through the holes...

Of course, a morning up on the roof, shirt off, cool winter breeze, sees me feeling more than a little rough this morning...*sniffle*

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Joburg

Busy bloody week , all the World Cup's fault. Heading home from the airport every night, I've been blessed with some amazing sunsets and forced to pull off the highway in order to capture some small part of them. We have pretty spectacular sunsets, the winter tending to add to the palette with a hefty dose of smoke from veld-fire, factory and hearth.....

After the intense chill of last week, it's a lot warmer (well, -1 as opposed to -10) so I'm back on the bike - far easier to stop n click...

Friday!

At last, 'tis been a long week, not helped by bouts of insomnia. Anyway, all made better by a glorious Highveld winter morning, fresh and clear, the blue sky going on forever and ever - nicely contrasted by the yellow brick of the telephone exchange building opposite our house. Took some magnificent shots of the setting sun during the week, these are on my real camera ( as opposed to the cellie one used here) so I'll post those over the weekend.

Happy Friday!

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Lets Dance

Traditional song/dance routines by the Lean On Dance Theatre
group...Note I said traditional, not a vuvusela in action, despite the
soccer theme of most of the routines...

Frenetic fun and festivity here at O.R.Tambo.

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All That Jazz

Nope, I'm not a jazz fan, not at all, however I really appreciate music played for the sheer joy of playing it. Here we are, 8 in the morning, 3 cats laying down a spontanious jam at the Gautrain entrance at O.R.Tambo. No audience, 'cept a few sleepy security gaurds, and these guys are tootling away, smiling, vibing, hell, my morning mood disapates on a melody...

Back downstairs, the sound of the trumpet resonates beautifully through the concourse, usually made nigh unbearable by bloody vuvuselas at the moment.

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Good morning

Planescape - O.R.Tambo, somewhat warmer than it has been, at -1 this morning it was positively tropical in comparison to last week, so I took the bike in...

Supposedly the coldest World Cup in history, ah well, this is Africa, always unpredictable.

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Draw 1 all.

Melville...RSA 1, Mexico 1 ...

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The Thursday team photo event thingy!!

From meself and Hilla

OK,so mine's not an actual swimming pool, tis the backyard jacuzzi all drained and empty 'cos its winter, and the heating element doesn't work (a thing I want to replace by something solar anyway..)

Dunno where Phill's is, but then, do they have swimming pools in Belgium ;-p

Footie fans

Despite my general uninterest in sport and my disdain for the Fifa creature, I can't help feeling the excitement of the fans as they start flooding through the airport...

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Good morning worms...

Saturday morning, early, frosty...I get to sit in a warm Tata whilst the missus indulges in dog training...mwahahaha...only thing missing is a flask of coffee.

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Just bumped into Hulk Hogan at the airport!

Or should that be - bounced off!

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Team up Thursday

Team up Thursday with LadyRaven and
Sidiot (who seems to have gone AWOL, so will add his pic later)

*Other bloggers also doing Team Up Thursday's ARE:*

Berta and Corey

Andrea and Claire

Megan and Melody

Joanne and Rose

Cat and Shayne

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Breakfast...

Whereby there be a tag team thing going around a theme - this week - brekkies
...

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vinyl daze

Hauls are hard to come by these days with far too many vinyl junkies in the fray,many there for profit alone.....
But, now and then I get find the gems (well in my mind anyway)
Rosebank fleamarket on Sunday got me two Sensational Alex Harvey Band albums, SAHB Stories and Next (an album I've bought twice before but had snatched from me by misfortune). 'Next' has the legendary 'The Faith Healer' and one of my favourite covers of Brel's 'Next'.
Today I did the Melville rummage and scored the rest, Jethro Tull's A 'Passion Play' - my favourite Tull album- I loved the eclecticism of it whilst everyone else was chugging along to 'Locomotive Breath'; Traffic's  'A Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' never a Traffic fan as such I've always liked the quirky album cover shape ..and the title..and I'm appreciating the music much more these days....; also here is Hot Legs, the precursor to 10cc, this album 'Thinks, School Stinks' has the single Neanderthal Man that later pressings didn't include...; Beatles 'White Album' the album I grew up with basically, I have it already, but this copy still has the original photographic prints and poster!!!
As I was leaving the shop I noticed a pile of classical under the counter and found the Satie double and the Schostakowitsch - my favourite classical composer..so I grabbed those quick like...

A good ending to day started down right rotten by some twit wrecking the Enfield Electra first thing this morning...

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