Skip to content

Monthly Archives: December 2007

Moorish Escapades

Sunday, December 30, 2007

My only knowledge of Morocco comes from the movie Casablanca, which I later learned wasn’t even shot there. Before we left, I had mental images of Oriental splendour and deep dark intrigues in narrow alleyways. I wasn’t disappointed.
The Riad – A home away from home
We spent most of the five days in Marrakech, in Southern [...]

Filed in Wanderlust | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Every day at 3.30pm

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The sun shines through the corner office and hits me in the eye.
Sun worshipper that I am, I enjoy seeing its gold orange glow reflected off the modern steel and glass structure opposite the window, and I imagine briefly, that I am sunning myself on some tropical island..
And I wish I could exchange the tweed [...]

Filed in Miscellany | Tagged | Comments (1)

Of the small and sundry

Monday, December 10, 2007

There is a strange pleasure in the repetition of manual tasks.
In the slicing of an apple for instance.
The knife poised expectantly above the freshly washed skin. Leaping, almost, out of my hand in an eagerness to slice through the firm red fruit.
Thick creamy slices edged in deep maroon.
Or in the crispness of a freshly ironed [...]

Filed in Miscellany | Tagged | Comments (3)