Cycle challenge 2011

Scientist no 1 has crossed to the dark side. Given how I feel about the wretched cycle challenge (which effectively places the neighbourhood under collective house arrest on an annual basis) you would think she would steer clear of it.

But no. 

They're back....

We have a pair of Spotted Dikkops (now referred to as Spotted Thick-Knees for some obscure reason) who have nested in our street for as long as we have lived here.

Their return to the street in late spring is confirmation, for me, that summer is not far behind.

Egg-sitting

I keel you...


Sometimes one will stand in the middle of the road when I'm coming home from the gym early in the morning, almost daring me to come closer. I have to sit and wait for it to calm down before slowly driving on. They are, apparently, monogamous birds so I'd hate to harm one accidentally.

And we can sit in the boma of an evening, watching the bats catching their dinner and listening to the Dikkops calling.

I quite forgot about the Cape Town trip...

The Angola Airlines 747 was still, as of 8th October 2011,  waiting for someone to claim it / give back its engines.

Of the 9 million pictures I took over the Karoo (my seat-neighbour was not altogether sure what I was doing pointing the iPad out of the window and if that required reporting me to the crew for being a potential threat) only 1 was worth keeping.