Rugby World Cup Final pt2

Having just turned on the TV and tuned into SABC2 it's a bit annoying that SA seem to think they've won already..

Patrotism isn't really my thing, but hell, England deserve to give them a run for their money..

Rugby World Cup Final

So you might have noticed but England are Playing South Africa in the Rugby world Cup Final.

Being English in South Africa for the last week has had its moments. I’ve been told if England loose it might be a good idea to stay away from work for a few days.. I think that might be wise.

The plan for that match is to lock ourselves in with pizza.

And in a stoke of genius as a half memento half urban camouflage measure we picked up a neat South Africa flag.

So with 30 minutes to go before kick off. Fingers crossed.

Surfing Saturday

An amazing day in Cape Town on Saturday.. A complete blue bird and probably about 27 degrees. So we directed ourselves to Muizenberg, so Nicky could sunbathe and I could surf. Amazingly the waves were down when we got there which is actually very rare for Muizenberg but I went in anyway but with little success. What was frustrating was seeing people on huge Mal board catching waves so I bit the bullet and went to hire a learners’ board to see for myself how much difference a big floater board made.

Turns out I can actually surf, and it’s now a pride swallowing exercise to admit to myself that buying the 6’9” was a pride induced mistake. Classic...So I paddled out and the first thing I noticed was how far I got out so quickly, this fact down the buoyancy. I then paddled into the first wave, caught it, a quick snap to my feet and I was on and riding and continued riding all the way in. Safe to say that in using the short board I’ve got stronger and got my technique for getting to my feet reasonably sorted but I’m just let down by the board sinking when it’s not got enough speed behind it. Looks like I’m going to be renting a board for the next few sessions…

Toys

Not that I'm one for wasting money and particularly on designer toys from Japan but these guys are pretty cool..

Filiming again

This time the crew rigged up an American Diner with man made rain...The one thing that stood out was the fact that if you work on a set you spend most of your time standing round doing nothing whatsoever.

Don't buy a Nissan

So we swapped cars a couple of weeks ago. The Polo had lost all ability to read CD's and was having a few issues.. So we entered into the uncharted teritory of dealing with National Car Rentals customer service. It seems they only train their staff to deal with one scenario - customer arrives on plane, issue car, next.

So I think we had about 5 different phone calls (with about 5 different people all of which knew nothing about each other) trying to explain that we were bringing the car back to exchange etc etc. Complete waste of time - we may as well have used semaphore to communicate with a blind penguin who wrote things down on an Etch-A-Sketch. Safe to say after several rounds of drawn out nogeotiations and a 90 minute trip to the airport we were able to return the car and swap it for another.

Drum roll please - A Nissan Tiida. First impressions were good - nice finish etc but then after driving it for a few weeks you begin to notice the flaws. Above 100kmh the engine sounds like it's having a seizure, the gear box feels like it attached to your hand using a drinking straw and the astmatic air con is a bit unpreductable. My advise to anyone buying a Nissa Tiida (Although i don't think the UK is subject to them) - Don't. Save you cash and pump for somthing German.

I think i've got enough pictures of the sea for a book

Between Camps Bay and Llandudno


And Llandudno

It snowed in Cape Town

I think they're shooting the Chrsitmas commercials at the moment..But on Sunday it did actually hail at one point - it's supposed to be spring now...

Rhodes Memorial

The Rhodes memorial sits on the slopes of Devils Peak and is a memorial to the legendary Cecil Rhodes of 'I'm going to name a country after me fame'. Hence the former Rhodesia.

Dubious charachter = dubious monument.

Kirstenbosh

The new Proteas are out at Kirstenbosh. But pic of the day was this bee.