Month: October 2012
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Seeking Knowledge
One of the best pre-primary schools in the Western Cape is here in Stanford in the informal settlement ‘Die Kop’. The young children live 5 kilometers away from the regular governmental funded pre-primary school and that is not the 7 kilometer needed to have access to the official school bus system. Add to that […]
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The Riding School
People of all walks of life are priviliged to live in a place like Stanford; we’ve said/written it before. Under the ‘dull’ first look of Stanford there is vibrancy inline with the good village life. One of the activities is horse riding at Bagatelle Horse Riding School and as the name says Bagatelle also offers […]
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This morning’s Sunrise
Early birds like us take the opportunity to enjoy the sunrise. Also this morning and although not the most beautiful one we’ve ever seen it was worthwhile to take a picture at the original entrance of the ‘Sir Robert Stanford Estate’. Stanford is the name giver of our wonderful village.
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Not a GM Cow
Sometimes we, like most people we guess, don’t see things in perspective. ‘Minor’ items getting out of proportions and priorities mixed up. Adobe Photoshop (Ps) is an outstanding tool to express one’s ‘proportional’ feelings. Yesterday we saw our village (Stanford, South Africa) in a different perspective resulting in the remake of the main road (Victoria […]
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55mm in 1 hour brings transparency
Inspired by the heavy rainfall this morning (55mm in 1 hour). A good rain shower shows where one has failed (shortcuts???) to maintain and create proper infrastructural works. It brings clarity and transparency. We now know, for example, the weak spots on the road between Hermanus and Stanford. It also indicates that nature is more […]
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Romancing the Flower
Clarissa, one of the ‘girls’ of the Stanford Hotel, likes to go into the open. She loves flowers and one night, when she was off duty, she fell in love …
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Battle of the Giants
Yesterday we published about our first experience with Adobe Photoshop (as part of Adobe CS6 Premium Production software). Today we show you our second attempt of composing a new picture with this software. It’s slightly better (we named it ‘Battle of the Giants’) and it tells more of an imaginary story. Still a long way to […]
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Moon Harvest
Last week a new iMac was delivered together with Adobe CS6 Premium Production software which includes amongst others Premiere Pro (movie editing) and Photoshop. All together a very extensive software program and it will take a few months before we can master the majority of possibilities. This week we started to ‘play’ with Photoshop. Amazing […]
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Sunday Sundowner
Life is good for us Stanfordians. Yesterday (a SUNday) we had dinner at Stanford Valley (guest farm and conference centre) 10 km out of the village. Well one must experience this to contemplate it in full but here an impression. The musicians ‘Nossa Vida’ fitted in very nicely in the cosy sphere of this specious […]
Life in the Overberg 