Christopher Brunsdon

The perfect ride to get me back into the MTB saddle.

With the new Cape Town water restrictions about to kick in (hard), I've decided to try square foot gardening again this year and incorporate greywater. I'm moving my washing machine to be nearby to my gardening patch and will see what grows. These restrictions where rather unexpected else I would have bought a large JoJo tank earlier this year.

My mom lives in the sticks in Oz and they have criminals coming in from the cities as its easy pickings. Not so long ago you left your keys in you car when you went to town just in case somebody needed to move it. Now the cops go around checking cars at night and fining owners who leave their keys in the ignition.

I always complain to my wife that she should understand that no man is ever judgmental when a woman undresses in front of them ... we are just all too grateful

I've enjoyed this (long) thread and unbeknown it actually planted a seed. A friend of mine is going back to NZ in a few years time and he mentioned how trivial it was to get in, well for our industry. Already started doing my homework. I've got an itch to live and work somewhere else for a couple of years. My first two options are no longer looking attractive (apparently being 40 in San Francisco makes you unemployable and thank you Brexit). So NZ is now my choice. Thinking of going over some time next year and check things out myself.

This has been a very interesting thread. I hope to visit NZ in the next two years to see if it tickles my fancy. To be honest what makes me jealous is the freedom of movement without fear of being a victim of crime, even took up Brazilian Ji-Jutsu this year. For everything else, I still love my Africa.

Years ago a buddy and I did that at the Waterfront. How we survived that night I still don't know as I've never seen people get so agro in a parking lot. Was lots of fun

I take it you don't own a decent one. Love mine, was hardly used when given to me. Nothing beats the sound of it when I crank it up, also a good workout. And I don't have to worry about Eskom.

I have an old cast iron grinder. Get one of those as they are the best. You need to hunt them down in antique stores or ask old ladies if you can have theirs ( what I did )

I have a Dolce Gusto machine and love it. While it uses propriety pods, they are larger than normal pods and will often work out the same price for a cup of coffee as they give you up to 16 pods in a box versus some giving you only 10. You can get many different flavours and are nice for when guests visit. My wife loves the Tea Latte even though it works out R10 a cup nowdays. I love my espresso which comes to R5 a cup. The pods are available online and at all stores. Personally I was buying this as an interim till I could save the R10K needed for a quality machine. Now after 4 months that I've got the money, I'm sticking to my pod machine. You can pick up the machines on Gumtree for R1K as unwanted, unopened gifts. There where pig promos end November where they where sold for that price.

Ag shame, are you lot the ones I see coming up the little hill on your electric assisted bikes. Who needs Eskom to enjoy time in the saddle. Now get out there and ride.

For the money you save you could buy DVDs for that and would not be able to watch everything. I'm downgrading to the R100 package as the only two stations we watch are on it: Cartoon Network; Disney Junior. I'm going back to buying movies.

Toys R Us are having a sale and I picked this up for my son. I had the most awesome set as a child but my mom kept during my parents divorce. Still got mommy-issues about it. But time to get my 7yr old hooked, there is a set I'm buying for myself tomorrow. This was marked down from an insane R800 to a more reasonable R200.