Khamsin Warrior

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Graham visited KW at Cobbitty Lodge last Friday as promised and reports that he is looking great. The 'girls' who run Cobbitty Lodge have apparently fallen in love with him so he is bound to be getting lots of TLC.
A couple more weeks of pampering then it's back to the real world and preparation number three at Ascot Lodge.

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About the Name

"Khamsin" is Arabic for "fifty" and is the name given to the hot, strong, violent winds that sweep across the Sahara Desert from Libya and Egypt for about 50 days each year.

In 'Khamsin' by Clinton Scollard he says about the wind,

'It blasted the buds on the almond bough,
And shrivelled the fruit on the orange tree'
'The tiny fledgling died in the nest;
The sick babe gasped at the mother's breast.
Then a rumour rose and swelled and spread
From a tremulous whisper, faint and vague,
Till it burst in a terrible cry of dread,
The plague, the plague, the plague.
Oh the wind, Khamsin,
The scourge from the desert, blew in'

There is also a "Maserati Khamsin" Italian sports car