Damn Revisionists!

Here is my blog post for today, hopefully I'll make another tomorrow.

For the ultimate in irony check out this story. This is happening because of new farm invasions on already state owned farms. Well Bob, what you've got to understand is that when you tell people they can just take whatever they want, you'd better make sure you don't have anything that they want! oh, the irony!!

I was checking out a forum for my new camera and came accross someone who was at Kirstenbosch and had taken some pictures of what they claimed to be Colonel Bird's bath. Being my friendly self I corrected that that it was actually Lady Anne Barnard's bath and that it was called the Bird Bath because of the shape. That's the way that I remeber it. And I used to go there like twice a month with my Gran. Anyway this woman was adament so I did some checking and lo and behold she could actually be right. There is some confusion as to who's bath it is and why it is called the "Bird Bath" This is the best discussion I can find on the topic from this site.

Your Peninsula tour will also surely include the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, known for its superb scenery, as well as being the best place to get an idea of the richness of the Cape Floral Kingdom. In the garden is the spring of the Liesbeek River. In this spring, too, lady Anne Barnard is said to bathed nude while on a picnic. For this reason, the bird-shaped sunken pool at the spring is sometimes called Lady Anne Barnard's Bath. However, she may have bathed in the spring before the pool was built. It is also called the Bird Bath, and some say that it is not because it is shaped like a bird, or because it is for the benefit of birds, but because it is supposed to have been built by one Colonel Bird, in 1811. (The pool, however, is built of Batavian bricks. Batavia was a Dutch colony in the East Indies. Would Colonel Bird have still been importing bricks from there, five years into the second British occupation of the Cape?) Again, Lady Anne haunts the castle, so why not here?

Again I distinctly remeber that it was Lady Anne Barnard's Bath. Somewhere along the line the "offical" story has changed, the Kirstenbosch web site makes no mention of Lady Anne what so ever. I'm actually quite interesed in this and I'd like to know why it was changed.

Looter guy pic of the day



I'm atuclly really looking forward to RPG tonight and I'm really disapointed that we didn't play on tuesday. Hold'em was really cool, but just to be clear I sent Yanke home to do his assignment because I was worried about it, and not because I wanted to play poker. If I could change something about my time at Varsity I would have arsed around less and put more effort into my studies, not studied to the exclusion of all else mind you but concentrated more and maybe cut my degree time down by a year.


here is an interesting story, the next space tourist is a self confessed Gundam otaku. It reminds me of the line in "Common People":

Nobody likes a tourist, especially when they think it's all such a laugh!

In this case though the people don't hate the rich kid for mocking them, but just because being rich lets him go into space dressed as his favorite cartoon character. Man I hate him too!

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