Picking it up.....

Blogs are a good idea....but sticking with writing one is tougher....felt genuinely inspired to resume after chatting to the photographer and curator of Pictorial UCT - exhibition here at the cafetaria

Keep your eye on this space....  https://www.facebook.com/uctpictorial

Just plain fucked up......

So we are sitting and drinking...recovering from a heavy blow....that is a cannabis blow...not any other kind...although in this state another kind would do....

With friends...so good to have people close...they help with the fucking nightmare that is reality...

NOB (No Ordinary Burger) Woodstock.........you gotta have this burger....

Just returned from Ivan Tom's clinic - more medication and stabilisation needed.  Decided afterwards to walk down to the now ever popular Woodstock.....the new place to be in Cape Town...suburbs constantly re-inventing themselves.....

Walked around popped into series of stores....with NOB burger joint at the end .... took a look at the rather inventive interior....friendly staff member who offered me a drink immediately...wasn't planning on staying...so passed on that one....

Took a stroll down to the Old Biscuit Mill.....mundane and boring...the usual tourist and budding taste-less middle class who need chic to be manufactured for them....not my scene.

Decided to head back to NOB....ordering a beer and was talked into a burger.....really not sorry....HUGE, tasty...real beef...you can taste it....

Rock music - not my thing...but the interior decor really matches...car grills...hubcaps, milk crates converted to seats....lp records as place mats...graffiti pontiac's etc....the warehouse interior retained...red brick and scrubbed plastered walls....

Sitting here takes you away to somewhere else....from pills and madness!!  see

HIV and Egypt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufKjgCwNmg&NR=1

SO much work to be done!!!!

Changes and moves

Muizenberg Beach

I have recently moved to Cape Town to follow Brad - and we have subsequently gone our own ways, but working on getting together again

Time erodes at a relationship that is left to its own devices

Care must be taken to nurture and heal, both self and relationship

Vitamin C?

Been a while since I posted......and feeling much better. This can be attributed to the fact that I have started taking 1000mg vitamin c a day along with my multi-vitamin.   What a difference....I really feel so much better.  Whilst I improve I am afraid that the political arena in SA seems to be descending into a farce beyond even my own reckoning....

More to follow in the next post....

Missing links in time

Some time since I have published here....yet it seems just like the other day....I have not got rid of the cough...it still plagues me, but have been dosing myself with 1000mg vitamin c every day....seems to be working...feeling more energetic these days....now to just sustain it.....going to have an early night tonight, outside cars rushing by and people getting festive, I have little inclination to party or more importantly the budget....

Political wranglings of the elites

The president and his close ally....malema...I suppose we could call them the JJ's....are doing a song and dance....all their wealth and patronage are coming to bear...and they squirm rather uncomfortably.....they live the high life....and we fill up hospitals with more people than what we have ARV's for......the bitter irony of it all.

It is interesting to note that Julius's watch alone could sponsor 8 students through tertiary....?!!  My mood spoiled by this rather bleak political picture that begins to shape before my eyes....

Blogging....

I have never been very good at keeping a diary.....this blog has been the closest I have ever come to committing my thoughts and feelings onto paper.....and I hope the last.

It astounds me to think that somehow this 'floats' around the ether...a bit like the letter in the bottle.  Anyone can stumble upon it and read...I would really love to know what they think....although on the other hand it is best left where it is....

I am sitting on my bed looking out onto a very gloomy and grey afternoon....but a very humid one....as it is here in the tropics.....hot and muggy....even when it rains....a lovely day for scones....

Turbulent days...

Well it is not TB, but it is a recurring pneumonia...which I cannot shake.  It depresses me somewhat...to know that I am constantly on the fight.......