I have put off posting until I could report success on the home front - that I had found a place to stay in Cape Town - which I finally have. It has taken 3 weeks of hard searching but I have finally managed it! I will be moving to Muizenberg, which those of you familiar with Cape Town will quickly tell me is rather far from UCT, but its near the beach for dog walking purposes. And lets face it if you are going to move to the sea then do it properly! The place is fully furnished which solves a lot of my packing and shipping problems too.
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| Muizenberg beach Image source: capetownmagazine.com |
It has been a long and difficult week trying to find a new home, as time is running out so I have not been in the most amicable of moods. In fact I have been downright grumpy the last two days! but this morning I finally had the pick up I needed!
At the Palaeontological Society of South Africa (PSSA) conference last September I presented a talk on the origin of and archaeological evidence for beers and wine. This presentation,which won me the "Order of the Boot" Prize was presented in a tongue-in-cheek style. So funny was this talk that Ian McKay the education and outreach head here at the ESI has asked me to present the talk again as part of National Science Week celebrations at the end of July, which will be held at Wits. We have decided to run with this theme and Ian contacted the head of the Wits micro brewery to see if they wanted to get involved. Thus the head brewer Anthony and I will be doing back to back talks on beer and a beer tasting will be run during the week. So first thing this morning saw Anthony giving Ian and I a tour of the wits micro brewery, which was damn cool. As were the discussions about the Science week activities. Anthony is even keen on attempting a 'ancient ale' himself! So cool things coming up...
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| See the Wits micro brewery facebook page |
I haven't beaded this week, been spending my evenings packing but I can feel the longing to bead stirring in my breast, so I think I will do some this evening.
Keep well, hope you are all having warmer weather than us
Love Jet
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