Sky high

For me, cloudy weather always makes the sky seem so much more awesomely huge and magnificent then just plain, clear blue, skies, don't you think? Look at the teeny tiny houses and trees! Mind boggling! O_O

Crispy

Always good to know where you stand right? This was a novelty sign at a café we went to. At least we hope it was a novelty sign… Hey Ursh, why does your burger have a bushy tail?

Me n ma machine!!

Now here is a guy with a story! Those pants, that tiny bike, that beanie, that gas can! Whatever was he up to?
p.s. Do you know how hard it is to take a pic of someone while pretending not to? ^_^

Hi Jack!

Follow that Vehicle!!! Isn’t the license plate cute?

Shoo!

When you walk 5 hours a day, day in and day out you’re mad. But besides that, you tend to start playing games on your walk just for fun. One of my favorite is trying to find my footprints from the previous day. This is very tough as rain, other pedestrians and cars tend to obliterate them at will. It is always rather thrilling to find one!

Don’t you think it’s rather poetic to find this one right next to an old can of shoe polish?
And if you’re wondering, I wear soccer boots to walk in, comfie and great grip, hence all the little stud patterns.

Frosting

Well it might not snow in South Africa but when it gets cold it gets COLD!

A. Look how thick the frost is on Ursh’s car! You could practically scoop it up and make one, very foul , snow cone out of it! Our temperatures are always lower then the surrounding areas. If Benoni is 3 degrees, Germiston and Kempton Park will be 6 degrees! < - - if you’re not South African just know this is my way of saying “PITY US!!” ^_^

B. The windows also frost up and this is a rather…interesting, photo of one particular design that keeps reappearing on the passenger window (aka mine!) doesn’t it look like something that should be in the Blair Witch Project? Very occult! Those with good eyes should be able to see not just the goodies inside the car but a strange person looming in with her cell camera! Oh My!

Score you bastards!!

My goodness! Everyone’s watching the soccer!!

Feeling flushed?

This lovely looking shooter is known in some circles as a “Soweto Toilet” for obvious reasons. Made with a banana and chocolate liquor, it just seemed the right thing to celebrate the start of The Soccer World cup. Trust me, it smells a lot better then its name-sake!

Hat trick

My newest walk hat! (June 2010) And just look at the cheeky red devil! Happily showing its support for teams in the world cup soccer! Go SA, Go Japan!! Don’t you think it looks a bit like a wide-eyed, winking, red frog?

Kiddy Grade

I love this sign, it’s so open to interpretation! Beware Children? Sounds like if you’re planning on going into this complex, drive carefully as a whole pride of kids might descend on you, clawing at the windscreen and chewing on your tires!!
And no pets allowed right beneath it? Does that mean you’re not allowed to try tame, or keep as a pet, any of these wild kids? How unfair is that?

What's big, bad and pink all over?

Ursh and I play a game modified from the kids game of Punch Buggy. Basically when you see a buggy you cry, “Punch Buggy [whatever colour]” and it gets added to your score. At the end of the day whomever had the most won! (No prize but the grand feeling of being one up on the LOSER! :P)

Except if you were lucky enough to see a Pink Buggy! They’re so rare that they let you win the game automatically regardless of your total score AND you get to enslave your opponent for one whole day! (We weren’t very good at that part but it was nice to know the option was there!)

This buggy popped up a few months ago. We suspect it’s owned by some guy who inherited it from his Grandma and tried to use the spider motif to prove he’s “all that”
On the windscreen it says, “Driver Suicide”.
Oh my, how tough is Gran-Gran’s little boy then?!

Me wants Jo-burger!

Here’s a funny dog! It has little black marks above each eye that look like eyebrows and spazzy ears that don’t stand up straight but that flop inwards! It’s an awfully cute looking dog in general but it does seem to get rather mean and vicious when people stop to take a pic of it! (When it was younger there was chicken wire up and it used to pull on it with its bare teeth to try and get at you, hence me saying it’s cute LOOKING!)

Abandon all hope etc etc

Doesn’t this look like something out of a Sci-Fi movie? There should be aliens, or humans, walking around eating each other in this barren wasteland! But no, this is the open field next to us. All the grass got burnt so that it doesn’t cause a veldt fire in the winter. Here you can see all the frost from the morning caking it. To get an idea of how cold it was while I took this pic, try slipping an ice cube down the back of your shirt while you read this! Brrrr!!!

Adios Buddy!

Aaah my old walk hat! Recently it got a tear in it and I sadly had to retire it from active service! I’ve had it over a year and it’s a wonderful happy little hat. I hope it’s replacement will carry on the proud tradition!! Here’s to goofy hats and the people who go, WTF, to them!
CHEERS!!!

Fists of Furry... I mean... Fury!

A. Ninja Jo! A force to be reckoned with! Doesn’t my fierce-some-ness just make you quiver in your boots? (Sandals or whatever footwear you currently possess?)
I love ninjas! As a kid I used to go through an entire YOU magazine colouring over everyone’s face, making them a part of my legions of Deadly Ninja Assassins! (I think I put a few pen manufacture’s kids through college, the amount of ink I used! ^_^)

B. See? Even sensible Ursh was lured into the way of the ninja! No one can resist!!! (And if you think that just looks like a biker’s balaclava, ha, shows what you know!!)

This is the link to my face book group about the secret life of us misunderstood martial artists!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?id=689432512&aid=110997

Grrrrr

. A. This is our pre-teen kitten, Kitty. (Her name was originally Pandora but, like all our cats, she soon became accustomed to being called Kitty). She’s a pretty thing who knows it!

B. Not so pretty. This is her photo moments after having an anti-bug bath. I think her face captures perfectly exactly what her feelings towards bathing (And the people who insist upon them) actually are!! Poor wet Kitty! *Tries not to smile too hard*

Woof!

I pass this car all the time and in the funniest places! I often hear it coming a while before I see it. This is due to the fact that the bloke who drives it has 3 massive German Shepherds in the car with him. (One in front, two in the backseat), and they are forever barking! The upside is that no one is going to come within a few meters of this car. (I was so brave getting this photo!), minus side is I don’t want to know what it looks or smells like in there!

Doesn’t it look like the one dog is driving?
Dog 1: “Let’s stop here dear, I need to pick up some doggy chow!”
Dog 2: “Alright honey but get the chicken ones, remember what the doc said about your blood pressure!”
Dog 3: “Whatever! Just let me know when we get home!”

Paved with good intentions?

These guys are busy wrecking up, I mean work on, the roads here. I must say though that, unlike most road workers, they do seem to know what they’re doing and their patching is MOSTLY smooth. (The patching on the highway is so bad that you’re forever ramping up this or falling down that, so much so you need pills for Altitude sickness!)

And no, the shadow is not Darth Vader’s! It’s me in my walking gear and hat! I have not yet gone over to the Dark Side (Though they do have a great pension plan)

p.s. Don’t those shoes just make you wonder…?