Sunday, January 08, 2012
sifted free, let out of my stall
Bar and windows created for a generation
Soothing balm to mother's detente
Lubrication to every father's aspirations.
The expectations, and implanted
Aspirations assail me insidiously,
like a circus I never auditioned for,
Being slipped the whip so i can be
the three ring dirigent.
Pass. Inherit. Quarrel. Sigh.
Leaving behind the etiquette;
Discarding the rules I was always
Conditionally loyal to.
I gasp, lay back, silhouette my middle finger against the topiaries.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Wanting to be
Advice emits, unquestionably flawless
From the mouths and hearts of
The fairies, coruscating and yet …
I stand drowned at the centre
of this civilized cacophony
its incessant direction a universal
panacea, applied indiscriminately
guiding calculatedly.
Picking the flowers from my posies
heated, not giving in to hating,
holding on to the hurt within me
and growing from its lessons,
Getting the insight, and connecting
as an equal to the zeitgeist
around me
now i just have to forget, and I
will be a part of it.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Now there have been lots of tasteless cartoons regarding the faith of Islam, many of which caused significant social upheaval ... and here's an archive full of them!
This has to be one of my favourites, notice the scimitar through St Paul's chest!
For sure extremism however there are some even more controversial images depicting the despotism of islam.
These are slightly more graphic for instance the one below which is a melange of Hitler and Mohanmmed as well. Check out the website for more titillation here.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
It's always been my favourite game to watch, and the world cup last year was such a rollercoaster of torment for me. I remember being in Paris for the final and that stupid call about the hand being over the touchline losing England the match. Grr.
Anyway pictures like this make up for it, almost ;-)
Monday, December 03, 2007
This Saturday saw the sideswipe of my hangover at the unusually early time of 0900 and a trip to some interesting installations in Holland. Hire car bound, the four of us sped through the confusing lanes / roads around Amsterdam, oft led astray by the pernicious whims of the sat nav.
Our first stop was the giant flood defences that have been installed to protect that country against the devastating damage that was inflicted in the 1953/4 disaster. It is effectively two large semi circular barriers that are lifted into position and then flooded to sink and create the necessary resistance. Sadly the tour that was supposed to be at 1230 was moved to 1530 so we missed out. However the wind whipping through our hair and the toy models made up for it.
Another short journey later and taking what is possibly the most expensive ferry ever (3.50EUR for 4 people going less than 200m) we arrived in the slightly strange village of Kinderdijk. This is a village that is arrange on an extended dijk so it's very long and very thin. All the houses are built into the dyke itself, with view extending towards the sea.
Actually I have missed writing my articles online and am looking forward to getting back into the usual witticisms and observations that I hope have titillated you previously.
Anyway, here's a picture of me at the Red Cross Charity Gala last week, the black tie season is well and truly open!
Friday, June 29, 2007
From an 0430 start we made it to Dover and the chunnel link with time to spare at 0630, and after a more than welcome breakfast of a proper English fry up (no bacon for Nik, natch) accompanied by some shampoo rolled onto the carriage that was to take us to Europe.
We set off into the harbour searching for a spot to have a tasty beverage but found a long stream of not quite open restaurants and a boat from Goergetown that was positively gargantuan. Stumbling onto a mall filled with wide variety of shops, each of which contained clothes or other assorted items that defied purchase due to their tackiness, we made the huge mistake of going to a tapas bar on the water front.
Thus began the ferry trip to