Um…

bye!

KGwafnak! :-/

And now, to work.

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¹ – taking photos at Gay Pride Parade on Saturday⁴, followed beers and burgers^{5, 6}, following by usual suspects for dinner, taking photos at Navy Festival on Sunday⁷, followed by lunch at Fsh in Kalk Bay⁸, followed by Actuarial conference welcome picnic thing at Leeunwenhof⁹ (ask me about the security – wew!).
² – but all fun stuff. Seeing people, eating and drinking lots .
³ – very difficult to sleep last night…
⁴ – awesome as usual, stinking hot as usual, pics to follow from the Big Gay Threesome of Barners, AHS and Parfait Barners (flickr stream currently showing last year’s great pics).
⁵ – insert witty comment about beefcakes followed by beefcakes here.
⁶ – we went to Hudsons on Kloof. Great burgers, Jack Black on tap.
⁷ – which was groovy, but super, super, hot. We (Parfles & I, Betty & Panic, Ottie) got about halfway through all the stuff there and called it a day. Too… hot…
⁸ – which was really great. Great food, great cocktails, great big umbrellas. I’m seriously considering this for one of my Salty Cracker venues.
⁹ – which turned out to be much nicer than expected. Met lots of cool people, mostly actuaries – shocking!

There were many, many, people (50ish, including 10 younglings), and lots of them spent lots of time in the pool.
It was awesome.

Presented below are a few blurry, incoherent, but happy-inducing photos.
:-]

FSM on the right from The Doc, and cool swirly ornament from Aki, IIRC.

From last night’s (rather good) dinner with SMS, Teh Doc and the Evil Landlord.

Unfortunately, the menu board was attacked by a graffiti hooligan indentifying himself only as e-man.
Any information regarding potential suspects should be forwarded to the proprietor at the usual address.

Some interesting animals:
high kicking double-winged bat,
the octopoid from the black lagoon,
Totem TM.

Also, the introduction of letters into the construction of monsters.
See Yot the 2nd on the left, the Assss snake on the right, etc.

Click the pic to embiggen.

Yesterday evening, me, Jo, Jim and Julie had a plan to go to The Quarter, touted as a gourmet Bunny Chow joint.
Excited, we were. (Interesting, but now essentially useless restaurant info at Rossouw’s, 24, Relax with Dax)
Alas, upon parking on Long Street (thanks, Jimbob for driving!), we saw that the place was closed.
As in not open.
Ever again.
Hmm.

Perturbed, we were.
Defeated, we were not.
We did what all great folk do in times of distress: had a sit down and a nice cup of tea.
Except the tea was cocktails on top of the Grand Daddy Hotel.
The cocktails were good (Caipirinha with a kick for me) and the venue is lovely (it’s unusual and pleasing to be a good few floors up in the city centre).
Miffed, I was, that three of the cocktails took about 15 mins to arrive, and mine took 5 mins after that. On the point of almost walking out, I was.
But, tasty, and weren’t in a rush.
Amongst the topics of conversation were where to eat now that our target was already neutralised.
Julie suggested Headquarters.

Wow.
And wow again.
The place is very swish and pretty inside, but I won’t waste time with that for now.
The menu is simple:

• Salad;
• Sirloin steak;
• Chips.

The only choice you have to make is how you want your steak done. Oh, and what to drink. I’m sure you’d get more than a funny look if you ordered anything more done than medium rare, though (rightly so, too! Ahem).
The sauce on the steak is delectable, and they have the genius idea of coming round during the meal with offered top ups on chips and / or sauce.
Full of, as they say, win.

I really highly recommend this place.
R140 a head for the food, the wine is a little on the pricey side, but where isn’t in Cape Town? Sigh.

Hmm, quite a lots of words up there ↑.
You can see where my priorities lie these days: fooooooood!

Umm…