be careful out there

So what do you do when you get to the end of a week in which one of your pupils has been raped and has to undergo examinations by doctors and police and starts a month's course of antiretrovirals which are said to make a person extremely ill; your neighbour kills himself by standing in front of a train (arms crossed on his chest, apparently) and another pupil tells you that her neighbours, including her bff, died in a fire in their flat?  A fire that was started in some bizarre attempt to exorcise evil spirits.....

You pour yourself a very big glass of wine, light some candles and then you set your iPod shuffle to the Loud & Angry Music playlist.

Eish.

Just as well there are some good news stories out there.

Like a certain couple who's honeymoon in Meeru is not on the rocks. Phew! ;-P

And another couple (shhhhhh) who are going to have a baby!

Look after yourselves, people.

Seriously weird youtube vid to one of my all time favourite angry songs.
Calexico's 'Black Heart'

windy with a chance of sandblasting

Well, the sun’s out.

And so is the wind.

There’s only one person I know who’s thrilled we’ve the
South Easters howling again.

           But really, what's the point of fighting it if you're a Capetonian?

It's here to stay for the next, what...three months? And you can wipe that grin off your face brother mine!

So let's be positive. It's not called the Cape Doctor for nothing.

It's cleaning the city's air and blowing away all our cobwebs.

And um, it's good to get out there in the fresh saltiness

and have the wind whipping your cheeks. :-/

In case anyone's wondering I've made three beach walks so far.

Because as wonderful and bracing as it is to have fresh air whipping your face it's not terribly nice having half of the Strand beach in your eyes, up your nose and in your hair as well.

Dustin O'Halloran- Opus 23-

for Aunty Jill. RIP.

Rewind

My lens has spots. : ( Lots of 'em. See if you can spot the ones I didn't clone over in Photoshop.