Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Birdmachinery

I've just been sitting on the dock of the bay in the sunshine at the University of the East, eating a fruit salad and watching London City Airport.
It's very quiet today; the planes are lined up waiting: sunbathing, perhaps.
Every time a little plane took off, I had to resist the urge to applaud, to clap my hands at the spectacle of a distant shiny silver and white birdmachine racing along the tarmac and then gliding into the air to disappear into the bright blue beyond.
What a spectacle!

2 comments:

Sarah said...

Have you seen the book 'Egg Drop' by Minnie Grey? A little egg that didn't listen tries to fly from a very tall tower. On one page there are lots of pictures of flying machinery -the birds are drawn like machines.

Helen McCookerybook said...

That makes me wonder about Humpty Dumpty!