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Cheese Festival disappointment!!

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Those of you that follow my blog would know that I won tickets to the Cheese Festival, courtesy of Winecountry. Yesterday, my daughter and myself set off to spend the day at the Cheese Festival and as a cheese lover, I really looked forward to it.  I made arrangements with Henre from Winecountry to pick-up the tickets at the Clover Gate. 

The first obstacle was that the person that manned  the entrance to the dirt load that lead to the cheese festival did not want to let us in without tickets.  Explaining to him that we had to pick-up the tickets at the gate did not help much.  After much convincing he eventually let us through.  I must have known that things was not going to go smoothly.  We had to park miles away and after a long walk got to the Clover gate.  When I asked the people there that an envelope was left with the tickets for me, they had no idea what I was talking about.  The one guy asked around but no-one was really interested in searching for any tickets that might have been left there.  They just said that there was no tickets.  We just turned around and walked all the way back to our car very disappointed – (actually I was really mad since I knew that my daughter was looking forward to it and how disappointed she must have been).

I do not know who did not do their job.  Was it Winecountry that got the arrangement screwed up?  Was it the people that was suppose to drop of the tickets that just did not bother?  Or was the tickets there and the people manning the gate did not know and was not interested in looking for it.

The bottom line is that I did not go to the cheese festival and in the end it is WineCountry through witch the competition was run that has lost my confidence in them. I will have to see what will be done to make up for this .. I do not have any trust that anything will be done.

The good from all this is that my daughter and I then went onto Franshoek and spend the day in Franshoek.  I have not been there for ages.  We just parked our car and strolled down the street from little shop to little shop.  We had a great lunch in one of the many eating places.  After lunch we went to the Chocolate factory where my daughter spend some money on South African made Belgium chocolates.  Here is a picture of the little shop.

Franshoek 2

One of the main attractions in Franshoek is the Huguenot Monument:

Franshoek 4

So in the end, the day turned out quiet well and I rediscovered Franshoek again.  I will definitely visit the town again showing visitors around and spending some time in their fabulous eating places. 

Geekdinner @ Greens

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After months of not attending the Geekdinner, I went to last night’s one that was held at Greens in Plattekloof.

It was really enjoyable.  The food was great and Perdeberg sponsored the wine — thanks Perdeberg.

It was good the see Ian, Tania, Neil, Bob and many others again.  I also met Bev, the one and only Feisty Female  — was great meeting the person behind the tweets.  Also got to meet Kerry-Anne and Paul from Cape Town Daily Photo.  Kerry-Anne, hope the moving today is not to strenuous and that it goes well.  Paul, you must enjoy your tip to Vegas, am sure you will enjoy it.  I am so envious.

Ian was his best again with his talk on Hippie, Green and something about technology. Bob told us all about what is going on the payment systems and the Presentation Karaoke was just hilarious.  I did not get the name of the presenter that tried to find his way through Tania’s slides, but he did an excellent job.

All in all, a great evening with a bunch of Cape Town’s geeks.

Naweek in Gauteng of liewers in Pretoria.

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Wat besiel ‘n uit en uit Kapenaar om ‘n naweek in Pretoria te gaan deur bring.  Wel 2 dinge basies (OK, Louise, ek sal nie basies sê nie):

  1. Genooi deur ‘n goeie vriendin en hoe kan mens nou nee sê.
  2. Aangesien almal van heinde en verre die Kaap oorgeneem het vir die Argus, toe besluit ek maar om ‘n ander rigting in te slaan.

Laat Vrydagaand Johannesburg to gevlieg en die aand rustig verkeer.  Saterdagoggend fietsryers lughawe toe geneem wat die Argus kom ry het, en hulle het goed gedoen.  Neil het klaar gemaak in net oor die 3 uur en Andre om en by 4 uur.  Daarna by die Dros gaan iets drink en die laaste deel van die Stormers rugby wedstryd gekyk.  Dat ek nou heel pad Gauteng toe moes gaan om die Stormers te sien wen.

Die weer was redelik warm in Pretoria en het so bietjie afgekoel in die swembad.  Dis hoe die huis lyk waar ek gaan kuier het.
MH huis 1

Sondagoggend gespandeer in een van Pretoria se kwekerye wat seker die grootste kwekery is wat ek nog gesien het.  Mens kan die heel dag daar spandeer onder die groot bome en allens besigtig wat mens ookal mag begeer vir mens se tuin.  Hier is paar fotos van die plek.  Ja tot Koi visse ook.
PTA-kwekery 3

PTA-kwekery 1

PTA-kwekery 2

Sondagaand laat weer terug gevlieg huis toe en soos maar deesdae die inding is met vlieg was die vlug natuurlik vertraag.

Een van die beste dinge van so ‘n wegbreuk naweek is dat ek geen rekenaar naby gehad het nie en punt gemaak het om geen e-pos/twitter/facebook te volg nie.

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Matriek uitslae en eet met ‘n uitsig

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My seun het nou net sy Matriek uitslae gekry en ek is so trots op hom.  Hy het ‘n A gemiddelde met ‘n paar onderskeidings met die hoogste punte in Wiskunde wat hy glad nie verwag het nie.  Baie geluk Heinrich.

Gisteraand het ek en ‘n vriendin by Primi Piatti in Table View gaan eet. Dit moet seker een van die restaurante wees met die mooiste uitsig in die werêld. Die fotos is geneem vanaf die tafel teen die venster waar ons gesit het.

Primi view

Dit was ook ‘n perfekte sommer’s aand wat die son’s ondegang en uitsig nog mooier gemaak het.

Primi view

Primi view

Dit was ‘n “stunning” aand met heerlike kos, fantastiese uitsig en die wonderlikste geselskap.  Dankie R vir die aand .. jy weet hoe baie jy vir my beteken.

Werk, fliek en die week wat was.

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Die week het begin met my wat moes besluit of ek ‘n nuwe werkaanbieding wat op my lessenaar geland het gaan aanvaar en of ek by IBM gaan bly.  Na gesprekke met menigte mense het ek besluit om by IBM te bly en nie die nuwe werksaanbod te aanvaar nie.  Dit was goed om te sien dat IBM bereid was om iets te doen om my te behou en dit laat mens goed voel.  Ek moet nog die ander maatskappy laat weet dat ek nie hul aanbod aanvaar nie.

Gepraat van werk.  Donderdag het IBM se Kaapse kantoor hul jaareind funksie gehad.  Dit was iewers teen Tafelberg op in die Tafelberg Nasionale Park.  Ek bly al so lank hier in Kaapstad en het nie eens van die plek geweet nie.  Hier is ‘n foto wat ek geneem het.
IBM yearend 2007-1 Foto geneem deur Marius Bock met Nokia N80

Gisteraand het ek Surfs Up gaan kyk en het dit terdee geniet.  Daarna gaan koffie drink by Coffee Junction in Tygervallei.  Hulle het “live entertainment” gehad en dit was nogal goed gewees.  Weet nie wie die ou was wat gesing het nie maar gehoor hy is ‘n polisieman wat sing in sy spaar tyd.  Hy is blykbaar elke tweede Saterdagaand by Coffee Junction.  Gaan loer gerus daar in na fliek.  By gesê, dit was omtrent die enigste plek wat enige lewe gehad het in Tygervallei na 10 uur.

Found Stormhoek at Checkers

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As mentioned yesterday, Stormhoek is now available at your nearest Checkers.  Went down to my nearest Checkers (Willowbridge) earlier today and found some Stormhoek Pinotage 2006, as can be seen from the pic to the left.  Click on it for a larger one.

Will enjoy some of it this evening .. will post my view of it afterwards. 

Now for that T-shirt and would not mind the supply of Stormhoek for a year either.

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Yippee, Stormhoek in the Retail stores!!!!

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After drinking some Stormhoek wine at 27dinners, I always wondered where to buy some.  Now it is available at Checkers according to this post.

You can even add Stormhoek as your Facebook friend and hopefully you will end up with a Stormhoek T-shirt. Hope mine is in the post 🙂

It is great to eventually be able to get some.  I will make sure to pop into my nearest Checkers tomorrow morning to see if they have stock.  That will be the Checkers at Willowbridge.

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Why I love summer …

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Yesterday morning I went to brunch with a friend and her kids.  We ended up at Hammers and Spanners which is in Willowbridge just outside Tygervalley. We sat outside under the great summer sun looking out over the river below.  The kids could run around in the nursery which is at the back and look at all the animals that they have there.

The food was not anything to write home about.  Bit expensive and the portions was real small.  But the service was great, friendly and the owner made a point of starting friendly chats with everybody.  And the company was great.

This is what make’s summer great.  Being able to enjoy the outdoors and not being cooped up between four walls.

Hope the wind stay away today, want to pack a cooler and go to the beach this afternoon.

Ratatouille – my impressions

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Yesterday evening I went and watched Ratatouille at Tygervalley.  Made an evening of it and had some dinner at The Dros in Willowbridge, although one of the biggest restaurants around, I like to go there.

Back to Ratatouille – I love going to watch animation movies, must be the inner child in me.  When comparing to other animated movies like Happy Feet, Nemo, Ice Age 1 & 2 and The Incredible’s then Ratatouille is close to the bottom of the list.  Yes it was very entertaining, very well made but it did not grip me.  I just knew what was going to come next, no real surprises in the story line. Ok once or twice there was a scene that made one jump. I can remember that somewhere in the movie I was actually a bit bored. 

Overall I would give it somewhere between a 6.5/7 out of 10. 

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