Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
I was lucky enough to be at Eden Park last night for Ireland's sound beating of Australia 15 to 6, what a match! Ireland's loose forwards were on fire all night, their forwards dominating up front so the Wallabies just couldn't get their game together. The atmosphere and singing was huge, in fact sounding more like a home game for the Irish. Ireland are now top of Pool C, it will be interesting to see how they continue in the later stages of the World Cup. Jonathan Sexton lining up a penalty kick to get Ireland on the board...
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