September 2011
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in...
The sea. A beautiful, moving and powerful thing. A perfect analogy of time; sometimes it moves calm and slow, others it’s fast, dangerous and unrelenting. The one thing it never does is stop, no matter how much you want it to. I love the sight, smell and sound of it. I could stare at it for hours. What I don’t like is what’s lurking in it; Sharks.
I’m terrified of the...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
There aren’t enough words to express the deep, aching sadness that comes with the memories of that fateful day in 2001 when 2977 people lost their lives in the air attacks in America. I didn’t personally know any of those that lost their lives yet I still feel the grief as keenly as the loss of a loved one and it’s still as raw today as it was then.
I remember exactly where I...
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First I was afraid, I was petrified...
I’m scared of quite a lot of things. Some of my phobias garner a mild response whereas others throw me into a fit of abject terror, namely; spiders. Sometimes just the mere thought of spiders can send the hairs on the back of my neck a-quivering, so seeing pictures or film/TV footage make me recoil and often render me incapable of continuing reading or watching until the offending specimens...