nightshopping: faces and places

kids were playing football in the street, one came up and a group gathered around, he wanted to test out his English. Where are you from?

Guess!

He made some Northern hemisphere guesses. I get Spain quite a lot. People see vestiges of the Spanish Armada that I'm sure accounted for Violet Victoria Liddicoat in parts like her nose. And the sleigh bed in the front room at Addiscombe I imagined as spoils from across the sea. I gave him a clue. . . pointing to where we are up here on the imaginary globe and where I'm from down the bottom on the other side. I managed to get him there. Australia he'd heard of, not NZ and, like most do, he made the connection with the Netherlands.

You make that so hard, a trick! he said.

Karak place was closed for prayer . . . while we were waiting we went around a back alley. Here's your location! I said to the crew.

Karak: