A local Facebook moonbat Sadly introduced (digitally) to my timeline this morning. I'm not naming names: that won't help anybody. But just know that there are people like this well inside the confines of the Lentil Curtain, and this one has been going at it for many years now. Of course, all the…

MOBA MOBA - The Museum Of Bad Art. It's in Boston. This one, not this one. The tagline is "Art too bad to be ignored", and there's certainly some very bad art on offer there, but surely beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, and this is all subjective? I think that we could unanimously…

All too late Bit knackered after a very busy day, so making the sensible decision to reach for the bottle of Courvoisier and enjoy a well-earned glass before bedtime. Tomorrow promises to be equally nuts, but I'll try and get a post out a bit earlier than I've managed today. T&Cs and all that…

Up and running Finally. A goal. A clean sheet. A WIN! All aboard the express train to the Premier League.

He’s getting big Careful now... Who? Who's getting big? Our resident Cape Skink (Trachylepis capensis), unbelievelably named "Mr Skinky Skink" by someone that really should know better, is getting big. That's who. Resident in the braai wood pile under the braai, he's literally like a wild pet. And…

CeeBeeDee A wander around the CBD today, taking in a friend's photo exhibition... ...and a couple of other art galleries. Some were excellent, some were typically supercilious. Top tip for future reference: if the gallery name has superfluous punctuation, you can just choose to avoid the place.…

Sprinting: Surely the basics are pretty straightforward? I know. I know! You need talent, genes, determination, skill, power, dedication, a bit of luck along the way, perseverance and a whole lot more to achieve great things in professional sport. But in sprinting, surely the basics are pretty…

On Trump and Tylenol In an opening paragraph dripping with sarcasm, as the Marmalade Moron and his brainworm-addled side gimp gave us the answers to autism yesterday (see below), I was reminded of the other times that grifting politicians had helped out humanity by miraculously discovering causes…

Coming (going?) soon… I was making plans for a Heritage Day braai on Wednesday, but honestly, what's the point when the world is going to end tomorrow? And it's a South African pastor who has predicted it: “The rapture is upon us, whether you are ready or not,” exclaimed Pastor Joshua Mhlakela.…

New friend Another year older, another year wiser. And to celebrate, this little lad came to join the family: This is Claude. He's very cute, and we're going to spend the next few weeks getting him used to his new home in our home. Welcome, Claude.

Useful map Not sure why you would ever need it, but if you ever did, then here it is: Basically, a handy guide to which country you would end up in if you left the UK (or Ireland) and went straight North, South, East or West. I might have to do one of these for SA.  I know that if you head…

The Carrier This is a post about a rather unsettling piece of artwork I saw on the internet today. But first, since we're talking about carriers (the title is the name of the artwork), let me just document the demise of a couple of birds that I know about in Agulhas over the last two days. Both…

US (no) Vaccine News There's plenty going on in the world of the anti-vaxxers over in that weird place, with Florida rolling back the years to the happier times of diphtheria, polio and chicken pox because of "slavery". Right. And then a couple of days later, a voice of reason piped up with this…

The Heating Debate Households in the UK are already settling into a slightly earlier than usual Heating Debate, as in: should they put the central heating on yet? Earlier than usual because of a bit of a cold snap over there, but whenever it happens, it prompts arguments: No surprise that Belfast…

Let’s move on After all the exciting football news, it's time to remind ourselves that this blog isn't actually a football blog. No, here at 6000 miles..., we like to see every sport represented in its own right. And so is some other news from other recent sporting events that might otherwise have…

The Return of the Prodigal Son Guess who's back? I've been watching football for long enough that I understand a lot of it. Business, though? Not a clue. That's why I leave running the club to the people who do understand the business bit. But it seems like they might not quite have understood the…

Gone Finally. The manager that no-one wanted in the first place, has been sacked. And what a waste of three months. Sure, he's ruined the season already, with everyone else having a 5-game and a +11 goal difference start on us, and why would we trust the club's owners to bring in the right person…

Tired now I've mainly been taking hundreds of photos of a Dodgeball tournament today, and it's left me rather knackered. It also means that tomorrow will bring a World of Editing™. But that's tomorrow. I'm going to get some dinner and get some sleep.

Finally! Finally feeling a bit better today, and ready to actually do stuff. Well, that was until I actually did stuff, and now I'm a bit knackered. But I am on the mend and that's good news. I do plan to take things easy for the rest of the day though. And that's why I hope that if we are invaded…

About yesterday Given that today is the anniversary of 9/11 - arguably the biggest news day in living memory - it was probably fitting that yesterday was probably right up there with it in having the most "big" stories in a single 24 hour period, although none of them quite toppling the gravitas…

Problematic graphic I'm not a social scientist or an economist, but I've done enough looking at graphs to see when a graph doesn't look good. Whether that's to do with money or infectious diseases, a bad graph always looks... bad. This isn't a graph per se (I think that it's a treemap chart), but…

Rough It's been a while since I've been unwell. But I've got a virus. Not sure how. Maybe like one of those things out of The Day Of The Triffids where they all went blind from the alien meteor shower firework show. But you just feel crap and viral after seeing the lunar eclipse. Either way (and I…

Got a shot I know that I have probably missed the zeitgeist for last night's lunar eclipse. People have moved on to politics, record-breaking cricket scores and other such nonsense, and so this is clearly old news. But just for the record, the clouds did clear, making for a good view of the moon…

CAPE TOWN: Don’t miss the eclipse tonight! There's a total lunar eclipse visible over Cape Town (and much of South Africa) this evening, and it's at a perfectly reasonable time to see, and then still get to bed ahead of your upcoming work week. tl;dr (how lazy are you?!?) Basically, to see it, you…

Interview/Photos Yeah. Dull title. But some of these images are incredible. It's Dutch 'tog Albert Dros being interviewed for the 'creativity and culture' site MyModernMet.com, all about his love for Greenland (which doesn't belong to anyone orange, remember). And while Albert waxes lyrical about…

Budget decisions There are always tough decisions to make. prices are rising far faster than the official inflation figures would like to suggest, and the lack of any recent significant precipitation (dam levels are only at 92.6% vs 103.4% this time last year) has left the magic money tree in the…

Best song of the year (so far?) I know that musical taste is a personal thing, and that some people don't even look (or listen?) to the music stuff on this blog, but it's a chunk of my life, so I like to stick it on here. #MMIRIM, remember? And this latest Baxter Dury track has got me hooked.…

Beyond the curtain I'm heading North this afternoon, out beyond the infamous Boerewors Curtain. That's the line between the English-speaking South of Cape Town, and the Afrikaans-speaking North. Cue the "Don't forget your passport!" jokes. But it is a bit like that. It's not the only Cape curtain…

Did you make the list? Which list? Well, the name of storm names for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands for the 2025/26 season, of course! Some of them are clearly UK names, some are clearly Irish and some are clearly Dutch, and no-one seems really sure how they are chosen. Although... Hmm. And…

Beneath Budapest A little pushed for time this evening, so please can I send you elsewhere (and request that you come back here again tomorrow)? And the elsewhere is this CNN article on the hidden thermal caves beneath Budapest. \ Some really interesting information: Molnár János is still alive…

A good weekend We headed down to Agulhas in the dark on Friday. That meant that we managed to get a whole Friday afternoon of activities in Cape Town and still wake up down at the Southern Tip on Saturday morning. And actually, I have no issue with driving down the R316 at any time of the day or…

Bad luck at games and sports United lose again. Shots on target? Nil. So glad we appointed this new manager that no-one wanted. And then tonight's game of Mexican Train. I'm getting hammered in every meaning of the word. I need to be a bit more sober to work out these stats*, but it does stem like…

UK seagull war continues We've covered this extensively. But physical attacks are only part of any modern warfare scenario. There's the psychological efforts that need to be considered as well. And part of that is the battle for hearts and minds, and part of that is portraying the enemy in a very…

What the zipper seal now? It had been a long day, and I was tired. My eyes were tired. But I did a proper double take at the instructions on the top of this food package. I'm not sure quite why I was supposed to FLICK the zipper seal before attempting to open it, but I'm glad that I checked on…

I’m going to have to get my hat out It was back in March that I told you that I wanted a MAGA hat. And I immediately also told you that it wasn't that sort of MAGA hat that I wanted. Because no-one in their right mind wants to be associated with the Orange Shitler and his cult members. I wanted to…

(almost) A microbiologist’s dream And I am being quite serious about this. There are a few things that bugs and diseases are named after. The boring ones are the medical ones - just basically what the disease does to you or how it works. Tuberculosis gets its name from the bacterium that causes…

It’s probably ok You can't judge a book by it's cover (you can't judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover), but you can look at a headline and think... hang on a second... Hang on a second... Nuclear Wasps were so far down my "Things We Need To Be Worried About" List for this year that they didn't even…

Keeping A Lighthouse You know me. I like lighthouses. There are many (or more) posts on the blog which refer to lighthouses. Ones in the UK, the IOM, in SA, in France, even one in Germany. And so I was delighted to stumble across a new Youtube Channel by a lighthouse maintenance engineer, called…

Miserable Saturday? Not really Grey and wet. Cold. I've stayed home and lit the fire ready for the United game. But... Out for a celebratory meal later with the news that Little Miss 6000 stormed through her exams with amazing results, and the Boy Wonder has been taken on for a 6 month paid…

Panthers – It’s happened again! Aussie sport? You betcha, mate! I love a bit of Rugby League. After last week's incredible extra time finish to their match against the Melbourne Storm - see here for details - the Penrith Panthers were pegged back and forced into Golden Point time again in today's…

Buying beer in Finland I haven't. And I'm not planning to. But if I were planning to, then why would I not go with this pack of Keisari lager from local brewer Nokian Panimo - literally "Nokia Brewery" - which yes, is in the city of Nokia, which yes, is where the phone brand started out. But you…

Bonjourr 21: the background update I've been using Bonjourr for almost a year and a half now, and it's just lovely. I'd only been using it for a few weeks when I wrote a post about it and said this: Sometime we can have nice things. And this is one of them. And I was absolutely right. Well done,…

New York City’s Disappearing Horse Elevators Plenty of news here Chez 6000, but maybe more on the way, so let's leave that for another post and another time and head to New York and this lovely little documentary about the last Horse Elevators in that city. These aging behemoths were used to…

It’s getting serious over there We recently mentioned the seagull issue in the UK here. (And we've mentioned them here before that.) But since that post a few weeks back, things have stepped up a bit in the seagull vs human warzone that is the British Isles. There was another attack in…

It’s gone The weekend has ended. Damn. I've watched some footy (some good, some bad), I've done some random woodwork, I've walked well into the 20,000s of steps and I've had to avoid gym because of a grumpy muscle pull. Two lie-ins though, and that's been lovely. Back to normal life this week,…

Depressing sport United dismal. Again. But hey, I could have been watching the Springboks. And they were (arguably) worse. There will be a lot of the Championship very happy to see the Blades struggling. And not much of the rugby world will be upset about SA taking a beating. But as a follower of…

Unforgettable Marketing Stunt in Football: Showmax’s Viral Video I recognise that this blog has been a bit football heavy of late, but despite the current disorganised mess at Bramall Lane, I'm still quite enjoying the fact that football is back. Proper football, that is, not the Club World Cup…

Rocket Another dreadful night for football, both at home and over in the UK, but there was at least this absolute thunderbeagle from Gustavo Hamer: It didn't do any good at the end of the night, as we seemingly head into another season of doom and gloom, but will have to go down as one of the best…

Drafting Cooked Mexican food all morning. Served it to a baying crowd this evening, once I managed to get into my own house. Played a bit of football. Mardy opponents. And now it's draft night for the fantasy football league. Bring forth the beers and the bad decisions. More tomorrow.

Dirty old town? I'm parking outside our house at the moment, because there are so many vehicles from local builders all over the road that I will get blocked in unless I assert my authority by grabbing a parking space before they steal them all. Yes, it's annoying, but it's better than having to…