Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Icarus flying home # 1

I have been thinking about semantic, syntactic and pedantic grammatical nuances and this picture makes me smile. Firstly, is there any "game" meat - I can just see an old kangaroo rolling over and saying, 'hey, fancy a bit o' bush, fella?' While an emu, says, 'no, eat me, eat me...' If this is some kind of indication that I am going a wee bit mad, well you are not wrong. The solitude of writing does that to a person, especially when he is writing stuff he has to rather than wants to. I took this picture in Canberra and as I was writing it flashed up on my screensaver so I just had to share it. The shop was next door to the hotel I was staying in - what were those Australians trying to tell me, huh? but what is hard to believe is that I was in Canberra in 2009! seems such an age ago. Where does time fly to when it flies, Icarus like out of the window? I have no idea - the recording of this song is a wee bit ropey but its Sandy Denny at her very, very best, its like she is sitting in the corner, who knows where the time goes: