A failure?

Posting on a Monday may mean I have failed this week's challenge. I would like to plead the extenuating circumstances of intercontinental travel, and sisterly weddings, yet still I do feel the shame of this belated entry, especially coming after Gem's sterling effort at the classic tube map.

I have returned to a favourite medium, the haiku. The fact that it is short - three lines, 5 syllables, followed by 7, then another 5 - is of course a complete coincidence.

For Britain’s outlaws
Her bright harbour, a prison,
To us, adventure.

Right now, in Scotland's wet and wild winter, I feel very very far away from Sydney's sunny shores.

Ali x