Now we all know I’m an NSRI volunteer and I love seeing the work released by Ogilvy who do the pro-bono work for Head Office. I have to say that still to this day, my favourite advert has been the JP Andrew ‘Always on Duty’ advert and have been waiting for the day when another advert with the similar mood, tone and fitting sound track was released. 

And now we have ‘Sea Fever’ released last week by Velocity Films, NSRI and Ogilvy set to John Maserfield’s poem, Sea Fever. I love it. I love the use of Noah and Whales’ ‘First Day of Spring’ playing in the background. Just love. Even though I’m a volunteer, that first shot with the girl, is what I do; sit on the rocks or the beach, take in the ocean, ground myself and move on from there. 

We’re always on call, we really are. From 2am in the morning to in the middle of dinner with the crew at Hudsons or a breakfast at Newport or Alpha crew stepping onto the beach to play some touch rugby and then ‘beep beep’, it’s another nice reminder of why we love doing what we do. 

The Taste of Cape Town opened last night at the Green Point Cricket Club fields, next to the stadium and was happy to see a very good turnout for its first night. We got easy parking in the stadium for R20 and waddled quickly to the entrance to begin our foodgasm that is Taste of Cape Town.

A quick voyeur around the different restaurant tents in a nippy wind, it was time to get stuck into my first starter:

• Norwegian Salmon & Avocado Tartare, Parmesan galette, Ikura caviar, soy-lime broth & micro herbs worth 4 crowns (the food currency) from Savour Restaurant at 15 on Orange Hotel.

• 24hr-braised lam breast, Parmesan polenta & smoked tomato jus worth 8 crowns from Dash Restaurant & Bar. This was goooooood.

I had an extra dish after waiting for Societi Bistro’s power to come back on. Perseverance was key and after returning on the third time, the mushroom risotto was ready for us to have. Bonus points to the guy who gave us 2 portions for waiting so long and returning over and over again.

When someone tells you it’s not ideal for you to play soccer, one should listen.

But I thought, because its a charity event, it cancels out all potential harm waiting for me.

The first game and a big tackle later, I have been hobbling and at times, falling and crawling around.

It’s turning a dark brown currently. This could be interesting to watch.

What shall I call it?

Thanks to Investec, Cape Town got to witness fantastic International hockey matches, during the Investec Four-Nations Challenge held at Hartleyvale in Observatory.

The likes of world number 1 and Olympic gold medalists, the Netherlands, England (world number 4 & Olympic bronze medalists), Australia (6) and our hard-working Investec South Africa team who are ranked at 11 took part in round-robin matches. The South African ladies opened their road to the final campaign with a cracking 4 – 1 win over England. The next day they took on Australia, which was a very tight game, ending in a 1 – 1 draw. With a days break, Thursday saw Investec South Africa take on Netherlands but the world number 1 was just too good for us and we went down 3 – 1. The loss put us up against Australia in the semi-final where hockey legend, Pietie Coetzee put away 2 goals for Investec SA to head to the finals against the Netherlands after we beat Australia 2 – 1.

Sunday’s atmosphere at Hartleyvale was superb with many supporters coming through to watch the final between Investec SA and Ned. The SA ladies fought a really hard game but couldn’t convert on the many chances we had. After going down 2 – 0 at half-time, SA fought back to a 3-2 score, up until the final seconds where Netherlands sealed their gold medal making it 4 – 2. It was really a fantastic tournament, which we can thank Investec for and I really hope we see more International series and tournaments visit our shores. The past week was a huge boost for hockey and showing the teams (women and men), that the supporters are behind them.

Pictures from the week…

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe

 

This will be more of a photo diary then a long-winded blog post about my holiday. It was 3 amazing weeks spent celebrating my cousin’s wedding with family to sailing, Lions Head, beach, sailing, wakaberry, friends, friends and more friends to chilling with Shevel and the Joburgers to spending a lot of time with my NSRI friends & family.

I do hope you enjoy the pictures. I sure did enjoy the moments in them.

I’ve been looking around for a while for a decent car charger that won’t cost an arm and a leg. The arm and a leg chargers are priced around R250 – R400 which seems a bit ridiculous.

On the way back from the Market on the Wharf yesterday, we went into Cape Union Mart and low and behold, in the aisles of fun, I found this eGear USB car charger. Perfect.

R75. Many colours available. Do it