On the far side is The Bluff, which comes to a point opposite The Point, ironically enough, to form the Durban Harbour entrance. The city centre is to the left.
We live on the far side of the hill on the skyline, so this rooftop view shows how far we travel to take kids to school and sport each day.
This depiction of a far side wasn’t a Larson Far Side, but it deserves to be!
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What a view!
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Ahh, I miss The Far Side … I’m sure it’s still in syndication, somewhere. 🙂
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Still seems to be going strong!
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That is a trek! You have definitely made a commitment to your g-girls! 🙂
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Here armadillos beg on the road…sadly they are so limited in eye sight, they just miss where the shoulder dirt ends and the road begins.
Love the era photos – helps get a handle on distance and what you have there.
Take care
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Seems strange to have roadside armadillos! Is there a society campaigning for warning signs for them?
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Don’t laugh…there actually is a sign…one for deer, too. (It might help if they’d put the signs lower to the ground… I don’t think the ‘dillos can crane their necks up high enough to see them)
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I DID laugh!
Now there needs to be a drive to increase the dillo and deer literacy.
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We have the Wombats, some are quite large and they are very solid, heavy and not very fast, they have no road sense, and too many get slaughtered. Not because they can’t read the signs warning of them, it’s the idiots on the roads that ignore them!
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One thinks of wombats as being some kind of joke; a mythical animal.
People are so set on their vitally important trips to go shopping or to the movies that they couldn’t give a hoot (literally) about signs warning of wildlife. To the extent that the signs become redundant as all the wildlife has been run over.
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I mean for the armadillos, not the road users!
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If only the ‘dillos could bulk up and disrupt…we could use a few less cars moving down the roadway…
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If they mustered arma-dillo-ment, they could perhaps blast a few off the road?
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You just can’t help yourself; can you Lesley?
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A terribubble affliction!
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So, do you have to run a gauntlet of traffic and hunters on a daily basis, or just savage wildebeest? Just asking.
Yours, literal-mindedly,
Chris
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Actually, the gauntlet is truer than is comfortable. Drivers generally in South Africa are becoming less and less law-abiding and with a ‘me first’ mindset, while one set of them, the minibus taxi drivers, are more of a menace than wildebeest.
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Goodness – what beautiful wide open skies. I would think you were in Australia if I didn’t know better.
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I know there are a number of similarities from the pronouncements of a good number of friends and relatives who now live in Oz.
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That’s some taxi service 🙂
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Indeed; and becoming increasingly painful as the petrol price rockets up.
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😦
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Your rabbit overlooking the highway: reminds me of a night-time drive from the Lake District to the Yorkshire Dales. The road was paved with rabbits, impossible to miss them all — bump, thud, bump for miles. Oh, the horror!
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They are such silly things when caught in headlights. I remember them being plentiful in the Lake District. Rabbit pie for the taking!
In one of my books a rabbit character insists on crossing a road at night but is saved by the cat hero who gets injured instead.
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