Today is the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere so I thought the best way to start off the blog this week was to quote from today’s paper, “Hail, downpours, crashing waves, snow, plummeting temperatures and gale-force winds have for two days battered the metropole causing widespread disruption from power outages to flooding” Cape Times September 1st 2008. ….well it is winter! That pretty much sums up our weekend; it’s cold and very wet. The storms here aren’t like the ones in the UK as in an hour on Saturday 50mm of rain fell - all roads were literally rivers. The main downside to this for me was that the pub I usually watch football in, The Brass Bell, was closed due to waves washing through the open windows! It also looked like some
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