A Searcher's Diary: Broken Umbrellas of Belfast: Part 5 (probably a record breaker this one!)

HELLOOOOO Friends,

It's been a while eh?
It's been an embarrassing while actually...

I haven't written a post here since.. October? My last post was about broken umbrellas...and low and behold, this one is about broken umbrellas. I think I'm starting to see a trend here....

Look, I'm sorry.

I want to say that I haven't had "time" to write a post... but to be completely honest, I have had time. I suppose I just don't know what to write about these days, EXCEPT when it comes to broken umbrellas. Ohhhh broken umbrellas.

It's amazing actually. This whole phenomenon of umbrellas broken all over Belfast whenever it rains (which is 98.9% of the time) is truly incredible. Why does it happen? Is there a bin man (or woman) with a collection of sad orphaned umbrellas at the dump yard? Do they sit around during their afternoon tea break and say "Did you see the amount of umbrellas we picked up today? I found 30, so I did!"

[For those who don't know the accent... "so I did", "so I have", "so I was", and "so" on.... is just what Belfast folk like to put on the end of their sentences. Quite strange, so it is]

Here is my collection since October up until this past Sunday. I would have more, but sometimes, it's just too awkward to pull out my camera and take a photo for all of you. I normally have no shame... but sometimes, I just don't want to be beat up. And sometimes, I just feel like "Seriously, ANOTHER ONE" and I just can't be bothered. It would take up to make disk space!!

So enjoy.

If only umbrellas could talk, right? I wonder what stories these guys would tell!!