DJR

Great report Mamil. I missed it first time around, so glad you punted it again.

Chilling indeed

I would get a guide and do it in a group if I were from overseas. Not just for the safety, but also for the extra information that a good guide will share. If you have a particular interest, try to find a guide that does that. There are people who do botanical hikes and will show you incredible plants and flowers you would not see otherwise. I even know a guide who specializes in snakes and reptiles.........if you WANT to see those on a hike. Others do history or adventure. There is something for everyone, even the people just interested in the view. Edit: I hike alone, but always with my dog.

I totally agree, except that it feels like EVERY ******* South African nowadays believe that they should come first at everything including being a ****.

About the West Coast cycle lane into the City Centre, I fully agree, sort out the security, clean up and fix the fences. Trouble is that it was / is a politically unpalatable action to forcibly remove the illegal squallers and criminals from the area. Without that step, the safety problem cannot be solved. About the cycle land along Albert Road - I consider that conceptually disfunctional because it is not separated from traffic. In my honest opinion, it makes it MORE dangerous to ride there. Having a painted lane in such close proximity to parking bays, bus stops, pedestrians and moving vehicles just gives a false sense of safety, especially in a society that disobey every rule. If you can ride that full length without getting blocked by a parked car, an Uber, doored or have to swerve out for a bus/truck/taxi/pedestrian, I will be amazed. Someting else is needed for Albert Road.

Just a little black and white pen scribble over a photograph of D because I'm glad to have him back after a long year of him working on his Pangolin project. I'll have to stop making Pangolin pictures soon, the family is starting to worry that I'll cut my own ear off one of these days!

Since we are talking of art created by a bike - this was done by printing with differently patterned bike tyres! Sorry, it is not very high resolution.

Chaos Theory in its very best artistic mood!

I am getting too old and cynical to believe anything politicians and "officials" tell me. I have heard of way too many commissions, think tanks, committees and plans over the years that amounted to a bit of visible window dressing for the media..........that lost steam..........and reverted back to square one. I, for one, expect them to do the very same thing their track record shows!

It gets serious when you give your kids BIG Italian names........Trek is nothing!

Not even Titanium? (also known as a cat-among-the-pigeons comment!) Personally, I came to the conclusion that I love both steel and Ti equally, a bit like my boys.

Woodwork on a different scale. Ds final thesis project is all about re-use, repurposing and recycling. So, naturally, he wanted to build as much as possible of his models from old balsa wood scraps and, suckers that we all are, he got the whole family, a few friends and even a couple of undergrads (as punishment for mishandling the laser cutters) to lend a hand. Frankly, if I never have to endlessly cut, glue, paste and sand balsa again in my life, it'll be too soon. But I think the end result will be worth the massive effort and save at least a plank of two from a balsa wood tree somwhere.

I agree with all the above. CoCT must first fix our donkey! If they can get it to look and work like a mule, I'll be very happy. Then, maybe, they can try getting us a couple of horses. Just ordinary cart horses will do fine, no need for race horses. I'm not at all interested in unicorns, I've heard too much about them and never saw one that was the real thing, always just a hallucination.

Dale, perhaps you should have that arm looked at.......just kidding........if you can quote from The Alchemist, you can have your arm any way you feel like!

Ha ha, vertel hom!