Limerick – Royal De Luxe Street Theatre Company
Posted on September 6, 2014
Arrived home just in time to catch the French street theatre company called Royal De Luxe perform in Limerick city today. Today’s event is part of a year long programme following Limerick’s designation Irish City Of Culture 2014. Read More
Sudan – A place called Soba
Posted on September 4, 2014
MB was chased by a bunch of young Sudanis through a poor Khartoum neighbourhood shouting ‘Khawajha, Khawajha’.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue
Posted on August 31, 2014
The Challenge this week – to link two photos that ‘speak’ to each other. Tricky!
Anyway here goes. From MB’s Sudan trip last week –
Two Western ladies, wearing fashionable designer labels, meet a dreadlock-haired Sufi Muslim man in Khartoum. Moments later the Sufi man is dancing with fellow Sufis, all wearing cloths that date back a thousand years, and some!
Sudan – Henna Party
Posted on August 29, 2014
MB arrived at Khartoum airport in dark of night. Read More
Meanwhile, just outside of ferguson…
Posted on August 28, 2014
I have followed a blog called ‘don of all trades’ for two years or so. The writer is a policeman living and working near Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was recently shot to death by the local police who have come in for lots of criticism especially from the local black community. He is decent guy and his post of last week went viral in blogging circles. Nice piece. MB
I followed a trail of blood up the concrete steps as Deja vu overtook my thoughts.
I’d been here before, just a few short months ago, doing the same exact thing, following a trail of blood to an open front door.
As was the case then, on this night there had been another call for shots fired heard coming from the street.
A trail of blood, an open door and no body to be found.
Just like last time, the person was taken to the hospital by a friend, so we wait to hear from the hospital when they make their mandatory call about somebody coming into the emergency room with bullets in their body.
As I was checking the house for another injured or dead person, I couldn’t help but notice that the house was exactly as it had been before.
There was no furniture in the living room…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray
Posted on August 26, 2014
MB was in Sudan in recent days to attend a wedding ceremony. MB received his henna hand tattoo two days before the party to ensure he was fully prepared to enter the fray!
My Sudani Visa
Posted on August 26, 2014
MB writes this account as he sits in a ground floor apartment just down the street from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia. In Khartoum, Sudan. Continent of Africa.
Two days earlier:
Politically Incorrect Soap
Posted on August 15, 2014
Yes. That’s what MB said. Politically. Incorrect. Soap. Read More
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Posted on August 8, 2014
This week’s photo challenge – Texture
The setting sun glistens like a million diamonds on the water at Dubai Creek.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag
Posted on August 1, 2014
Stopped on the Tralee/Dingle road for a few moments late June, to capture the patchwork of farmers fields sweeping down to the Atlantic Ocean shoreline, formed by the zigzag lines of boundary trees & bushes.
Waldorf Salad
Posted on August 1, 2014
Today, MB had a Waldorf Salad. At the Waldorf Astoria. Not at Fawlty Towers. Read More
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