HAve a LAugh this CARNIVAL!
"Doctor, doctor, what can I do, my little boy has swallowed my pen?"
"Use a pencil until I get there."
"Doctor, doctor I keep thinking I´m invisible".
"Who said that?"
"Doctor, doctor I keep seeing little black spots before my eyes.
"Have you seen a doctor before'"
"No, just little black spots."
"Use a pencil until I get there."
"Doctor, doctor I keep thinking I´m invisible".
"Who said that?"
"Doctor, doctor I keep seeing little black spots before my eyes.
"Have you seen a doctor before'"
"No, just little black spots."
Mardi Gras: Louisiana (USA)
Mardi Gras Day is always 47 days before Easter Sunday and
New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians named themselves after the
Cape Town MinstreL CaRniVaL
The KLOPSE (clubs) or Kaapse Klopse takes place on the 2nd of January.
Participants are typically from Afrikaan speaking working class "coloured" or mixed race families who have preserved this tradition since the mid-19th century..
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of music, comic and variety acts and dancingperformed by white people in a blackface or, especially after the USA Civil War, black people in blackface?!
Participants are typically from Afrikaan speaking working class "
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of music, comic and variety acts and dancing
The "Carrion" flower
"Carrion" means dead or rotting flesh!
Orbea variegata
It originally comes from the winter rainfall area of the Western Cape mainly along the coastal belt. It grows actively during Winter and Spring.
Orbea ubomboensis
Orbea melanantha
Orbea elegans Plowes is the most recently described species and it´s listed as Critically Endangered.
Orbea namaquensis. It´s restricted to Namaqualand in the northwestern corner of South Africa.
Orbea variegata
It originally comes from the winter rainfall area of the Western Cape mainly along the coastal belt. It grows actively during Winter and Spring.
Orbea ubomboensis
Orbea melanantha
Orbea elegans Plowes is the most recently described species and it´s listed as Critically Endangered.
Orbea namaquensis. It´s restricted to Namaqualand in the northwestern corner of South Africa.
South African EnDangered: GiAnT Golden MOLe
It is a subterranean, hibernating, nocturnal animal which has got
Body length: 20.8 - 23.5 cm
Weight: 410-500 g
It has got robust claws in the front legs and 5 webbed digits for shovelling soil backwards while digging well connected burrows among the tree roots, up to 13 m long!
kNocK, kNocK joking
Knock! Knock!
Who´s there?
Watson.
Watson who?
Watson TV tonight?
Knock! Knock!
Who´s there?
Justin.
Justin who?
Justin time for dinner!
Oscar Pistorius: S. African Sprint RuNNer
Known as Blade Runner, "The Fastest Man on No Legs" or "Oz" Pistorius celebrated his twenty-sixth birthday today December 20th. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
He is the first double amputee to run at the Olympics 2012 with his "Flex-Foot Cheetah Carbon Fibre Trastibial Prostheses".
He is the first double amputee to run at the Olympics 2012 with his
Kew Gardens (London): Marianne North Gallery
Bird of Paradise (flowers), Strelitzia reginae + SugarBirds (Promerops cafer)
Marianne North in Natal, S. Africa
Hibernation
How does it work? CLicK to find Out
The Cape sand frog (Tomopterna delalandii) uses its back legs to burrow into the sand, where it hibernates through the South African Winter.
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