THE EMANCIPATION OF MY KITE

wow, i only recently discovered that my kite was actually BROKEN. So while I was happily running around in joy with a flegling little kite that flapped dismally around the ground, little did i know that my kite had never even known the true meaning of flying. i fixed it up here in morocco (twas a complex mechanical-style proceedure that involved re-tying the strings so that they were even - i wont bore u with all the details as most of u probably wont understand) and then i let it go. it went out about 50 metres and sincerely looked as though it had finallybeen liberated; it sat happily in the air indefinitely and i gazed at it wonderstruck...so this is the true meaningof flying a kite. all those hours spent throwing it needlessly into the air over and over, only to watch it flap back into shrubs and puddles. I justified its previously useless performances with excuses such as; "its just TOO gusty today, thats all". how silly i was.

the culinary delights of morocco

mmmmm.....mouth watering
Morocco is renouned for being a world of taste sensation.

SCARABBI

"scarabbi" or "scarab" beetles are all around. they are probably doing their thing with camel, donkey or dog poo - they must be really in their element around here. (here is some info for your reading pleasure; note that my blog is informative as well as entertaining).

The hieroglyphic image of the beetle represents a trilateral phonetic that Egyptologists transliterate as xpr or ḫpr and translate as "to come into being", "to become" or "to transform". The derivative term xprw or ḫpr(w) is variously translated as "form", "transformation", "happening", "mode of being" or "what has come into being", depending on the context. It may have existential, fictional, or ontologic significance.
The scarab was linked to Khepri ("he who has come into being"), the god of the rising sun. The ancients believed that the dung beetle was only male in gender, and reproduced by depositing semen into a dung ball. The supposed self-creation of the beetle resembles that of Khepri, who creates himself out of nothing. Moreover, the dung ball rolled by a dung beetle resembles the sun. Plutarch wrote: "The race of beetles has no female, but all the males eject their sperm into a round pellet of material which they roll up by pushing it from the opposite side, just as the sun seems to turn the heavens in the direction opposite to its own course, which is from west to east."[6]

sahara

lisbon

paris and the bear-dog

in paris there was a giant dog looking at the tower.

exercise death

random scribbles

reflections of yesterday's non-event

bomb hoax nearly makes me late for work

yes, it's true. One suspicious package found in a phone-box at the end of my street and another just blocks away from my work caused my bus to be diverted and almost resulted in my being late for work. but then i guess things could have been worse...

perceptions of belfast in winter...

derry

Honestly, I don't have a deal with Guiness, it just seems to be a theme around here...

LonDon

domestic revenge poster

street art of belfast

Murals of Northern Ireland

adventures of the grooves shadow