craniac's place

Summer Holidays

Steve Crane — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:48:05 +0000

It’s been far too long since I posted anything, so here is an image that I took a few days ago that describes the season nicely.

Surface Tension

Steve Crane — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:02:57 +0000

Chicken curry with peppers & red beans, served with bulgur wheat

Steve Crane — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:57:45 +0000

Here’s what I made for supper tonight.

It was an experiment, not from a recipe but here is roughly what I did.

Chopped a red and a green pepper roughly and chucked them in the pot to soften with some chopped onion, stirred in a little cider vinegar and a teaspoon each of curry powder and masala. Added a can of chopped Italian tomatoes and left that to cook while I cubed the chicken. Once the chicken was in and had cooked for about five minutes I drained a can of red kidney beans and chucked them in before putting the lid on and leaving it to simmer on a low heat.

Eggs in a Window

Steve Crane — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:32:13 +0000

Misty Morning Tree

Steve Crane — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:21:50 +0000

Old and New

Steve Crane — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:43:49 +0000

Under the Wheel

Steve Crane — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:13:53 +0000

2010 in review

Steve Crane — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:45:31 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 5 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 33 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 548 posts. There were 12 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 582kb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was January 6th with 322 views. The most popular post that day was Swimwear, Africa Style.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were eolake.blogspot.com, righthealth.com, twitter.com, health.kosmix.com, and search.aol.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for gallstone, green point stadium, african women, african beaches, and south african women.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Swimwear, Africa Style December 2007

Abscess April 2008
5 comments

New Green Point Stadium May 2007
5 comments

Surf Phosphorescence in False Bay March 2007
4 comments

Romancing The Stone January 2008
3 comments

Not Quite Summer

Steve Crane — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:10:58 +0000

Living, as we do, in a winter-rainfall area we shouldn’t see weather like this in early summer but for two weeks in a row we’ve had glorious hot sunny weather all week, only to have the weather turn cloudy and cool for the weekend.

C-17 Globemaster

Steve Crane — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:25:24 +0000

A C-17 Globemaster of the United States Air Force kicks up dust as it gathers speed in its take-off run during an air show in Cape Town.