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| Everlasting flowers.© Laurence Gouault.Haston |
Things have different names, so do people, when there are different words or
we use different names sometimes we get confused and don’t recognize what we
are looking at, even if we are staring in the mirror. Plus we can be different
for different people, we see their need or different understanding and feed
them and wonder where the feast came from when we thought there was nothing in
the cupboard.
Has climbing got anything to do with living? Not a funny question for me as
that’s all I have ever done it seems. On this Island that has two names where I
have been climbing nearly all my living time, the sea and the wind wash away
many of questions that don’t really need answers.
‘Did I tell you of my visit to Ghawdex, vulgarly called Gozo. It was a most
pleasant one., I drew every bit of it…it's coastal scenery may truly be called
Pomskizillous and Grophibberous being as no other words can describe its
magnificence’ A guy called Edwin Lear wrote these words a long time ago when
Ghawdex not Gozo was even more magnificent
and Majestic than it is today. And by the way Edwin was born on the 12
of May and of course so was I, how renobulous!
These is a particular plant that grows on the island called Maltese
Everlasting that may be my favourite flowering shrub, it is endemic to only a
few cliffs in the world, and it has as
it's epicenter of total manifest munificence the top of my favourite climbs, how
obvious and right is that. So far correct, yeah. Well no, cos it ain't Maltese
Everlasting, neither is it Gozo Everlasting, it's gotta be Ghawdex Everlasting, or more possible Underworld
Everlasting.
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| Salt pan, © Inigo Taylor |
As Andrew Marvel said ‘Our vegetable love would grow, vaster than empires
and more slow.
The rock on Gozo, Ghawdex or what ever this little rock adrift in the sea of
modern Europe is called, is very beau, it's varied and jeweled with
crystals, veined , marbled, has patches of intergalactic Teflon, interspursed
with the roughest rock that resembles shark skin, it's damned lovely and really
tactile, it feels you. And there we have it, let's Rock. Let's Dance, let's Live.