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It's just not cricket

Fri, 2005/03/18 - 22:04 — Jonathan Hitchcock

cricket I was warned about the "cricket plague" in Stellenbosch. Now, at first, I had visions of men in white hats and pads going around threatening people with their cricket bats. As I near the end of my fourth week in this town, I realise that we are talking Jiminy Cricket, his brothers and sisters, their cousins, their friends, their friends' friends, and every other bloody cricket they've ever met. The place is swarming with them. I'm not good at quantizing (is that a word?), but I'd say there are about two to every square meter sometimes. One of the little buggers tried to climb up my leg (inside my trousers) while I was eating supper just now. I've never seen anything like it. And why crickets? Why not a decent plague, like locusts, or boils? Crickets are ridiculous little creatures.

cricket Update: the culprit has been identified. His name is Gryllus Bimaculatus. Mr Bimaculatus (or Gryllus to those of us who have gotten to know him well enough to refer to him by his first name) is a small herbivorous cricket, fond of humid climates.

HOWTO: Visit Jonathan

Fri, 2005/03/18 - 20:32 — Jonathan Hitchcock

Hereby the official How To Visit Jonathan In Stellenbosch.

First of all, we need to get to Stellenbosch. Use this map to get you there.

This map shows vaguely what Stellenbosch looks like once you're here.

However, once you're in Stellenbosch, you need to find me. If it's between 8am and 5pm between Monday and Friday, I'm at work. That is at Adept Internet, at 20 Plein Street, on the corner of Plein and Ryneveld. We're above Cafe Nouveau, on the second floor of the NPK Gebou. If it's still quite early evening, I might still be at work, otherwise I will probably be at home, at 60 Jonkershoek Road.

This map shows Stellenbosch in more detail, with a couple of landmarks marked in, including where Adept's offices are. On this one, you can see where my flat is - the blue and red blob in the bottom right corner.

Update: Plus, a map of the wineroutes, broken into one for Greater Simonsberg, Stellenbosch Berg, Helderburg, Stellenbosch Hills, and Bottelary.