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Load shedding. 6-8 hours without electricity every single day (and that's us being lucky. In-laws go 10-12 without) because the ANC spent the last fifteen years stealing everything the could and giving contracts and tenders to front companies so no maintenance was done. And now it's out fault for... you know... wanting to use electricity that we pay for. Add in sabotage to disable units so specific companies get to come fix it and we're heading toward a shitshow we've never seen before. Total grid collapse will take over two weeks to restart. The riots we had here a year or so ago will look like kid's playing in a park. BBC recently did a piece on it.

Yup. Kind of Magic was put on the jukebox with a knowing smirk from MacLeod. But the movie was definitely made in 91.

Cheers Jimbo! Comments much appreciated.

Best
Paul

Thanks, man! Yeah, I had to reign myself in with the spatter. I wanted to make it dirty, but reckon I ended up using it as a safety net, to hide any deficiencies in the cut and grad.

Paul

And here's the coloured version:

I know there was an old colouring thread but I can't find it anymore. (Where is the search function?)

Anyhoo, I've always dabbled with drawing etc and have decided to teach myself coloring to hopefully one day supplement a sporadic writer's income. This is the second proper piece I've colored and the first I've done on my new (low end) Huion tablet.

I wanted it to look gritty and dirty, so may have overdone it. Also not sure if I overdid it on the plane separation of the trees. Any and all comments welcome. Only way to learn. Here's the before:

You can't make stuff up. Guy caught out, now says he's schizophrenic and that he lost concentration, "started hearing voices" and hallucinating while signing at the memorial. Even though there is footage of him doing same thing at other events.

And what kind of security risk was this guy? If he could get within three feet of people like Obama and he's obviously a fake?

It's all over the news here in South Africa. Everyone trying to find out who he is and what the hell they were thinking.

I mean... seriously. How did he honestly think he would get away with it? It boggles the mind.

Huh. Just figured out I need to post here before I can post on other threads? Learn something new every day.

So.. hello. I've been on the forum for years under a couple of different names, usually because I log out and can't remember what the name and password combination was. Hopefully, this time I'll remember. My name's Paul and I'm a Scotsman living in South Africa. (Not Cape Town, alas, otherwise I would have been trying my damnedest to be an extra on the movie.)

Thanks for the invite, Emperor!

Any more of those invites going? I'd love one if there are.

Ta very much.
Paul

I'm not sold on the bike either, but I'll reserve judgment till we see a proper studio shot. I mean, the differences between this:




and this:



are huge. We just have to wait and see what it looks like under proper lighting.