"Paper late!" cried a voice in the crowd.
"Old man dies!"
"Old man dies!"
The note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'
- it seems he's drowned;
Selling England by the Pound.
- it seems he's drowned;
Selling England by the Pound.
Yes, agreed, not the lyric of PaperLate (all one word) but those of Dancing With the Moonlite Knight, from the superb album that is Selling England by the Pound, which far more adequately describes our position. A combination of a severe bout of 'inspiration' yesterday afternoon, followed by a BBQ cooked dinner and a Claret or 3 at Harbins was just the starter for 10! Returning to Slight II at about 21:00 and logging strait into YouTube, the following 4½ hours were spent watching videos of Goth Band 'Fields of the Nephilim and even though the bottle has been found there is no sign of the Red contents.
If you haven't hooked up with this band yet,
take a peek
Fields of the Nephilim
soon had me dusting of the cobwebs from the still
far from completed MEMOIR and typing away like billy'o!
Following on from a previous encounter, here is just a precis
of those efforts.
take a peek
Fields of the Nephilim
which starts with a full rendition of their seminal
and in my opinion BEST album
ELIZIUM
This morning started at 05:00 with a series of pulses of heavy rain, which currently stands at continuous, heavy and windy, no further reason needed to award oneself a Guard and Steerage, back into the hammock
The inspiration of the afternoon had come in a flash and
hence your 'Paper is Late'.
soon had me dusting of the cobwebs from the still
far from completed MEMOIR and typing away like billy'o!
Following on from a previous encounter, here is just a precis
of those efforts.
This was surely a good omen for the following day
when taking a British Airways flight to Johannesburg to embark on the 2006, 3 weeks solo
expedition, in hope of visiting 4 countries and covering several thousand
kilometres in the process. This trip, unlike any of my previous, was giving me a
certain amount of concern, not least because of the 5,000 murders in the
capital that year alone but looking into such things too deeply could apply to
just about every country on earth. Having said that, the intent was to get out
of the city as fast as the arrival, but even then Lisa, my daughter, had asked me to contact
her reference safe arrival and getting out of that area.
Even before leaving the confines of O. R. Tambo International
an approach was made by a pirate taxi driver, and after a short chat decided to
take the chance with him. This was a situation that would normally have been side-stepped but having already taken the precaution of jotting down both the
name of the driver and car registration, then making a spoof phone call, within his earshot, transmitting
these details to a nonexistent friend made the situation slightly more comfortable. The thrust for this first part of the trip was to visit the Rietvlei
Urban Nature Reserve at Gauteng, which is one of the largest of its kind in the
world, at 3800 hectares and supports in the region of 2000 head of a variety of
game animals. Highveld bush and grassland for the most part it is situated
close to the highway between here and Pretoria at a height of about 1700m above
sea level. The deal with the taxi was for an all day fare, returning me to Joburg
in the evening, and while provision had made to be sure of the directions to
the site, Demetrius, the driver, had the local knowledge to get us there quicker
and right on the stroke of 09:00. Already the small colony of Masked Weaver
were hard at work nest building as we made our way into the reserve office to
pay the entrance fee of 2.00 Rand. All of the animals here had been introduce to
this area from the ‘wild’ so were considered proper additions to my personnel
World List and it wasn’t long before the following (along with many more) joined those lists.
GREY-HEADED BUSH-SHRIKE
OSTRICH
reacting as
too close to the youngsters.
LEVAILLANT'S CISTICOLA
HARTEBEEST
(KONGONI)
YELLOW-BILLED DUCK
IMPALA
BLACKSMITH PLOVER
WHITE-FRONTED BEE-EATER
AFRICAN LION
AFRICAN LION
ROSY-FACED LOVEBIRD
HELMETED GUINEAFOWL
ELAND
(the World's largest Antelope)
Call it what you will
VIOLET-BACKED STARLING
this beauty was undoubtedly, and head and shoulders, the star
among a magnificent array of birds on this trip, certainly more deserving
of a better image than my own uninspiring effort (top). We have therefore
'borrowed' the other shots, including the sharply contrasting and rather dowdy
from Wikipedia.
AFRICAN ELEPHANT
the National Bird of South Africa.
BOKMAKIERIE
THE
sighting of the trip.
Later, we pressed on through Mozambique, Swaziland and the
land-locked
Kingdom of Lesotho.
Rock Trivia = The Nephilim are the Goth equivalent of the Viking Valkyrie.
Elizium is their Valhalla similar to that of Norse Mythology
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
Hammer of the gods, will drive our ships to new land.
To fight the hordes, and sing and cry.
Valhalla I am coming.
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
Hammer of the gods, will drive our ships to new land.
To fight the hordes, and sing and cry.
Valhalla I am coming.
Always sweep with, with threshing oar.
Our only goal will be the western shore.
Our only goal will be the western shore.
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
WE HOPE THIS HAS CHEERED AN OTHERWISE WET, WINDY AND DANK DAY!
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