The person we have come to love on this blog (guess who!) has now started her own blog at last! This is a very welcome development as it is very important for people to know that Bahrain, even though it is one of the smallest countries in the world, does have a varied and rich …

not your average local village girl, whose interests include cafe-lounging reading and chilling in the local matam.

Just another 24 hours and we’ll know who’ll “lead the world”, or at least the United States of America. It being a very important global event, of course you will find desperate and disperate entities trying to influence the outcome as best they can. Some, like MEMRI for example, are being unscrupulous about it. Fortunately, …

What the hell for? I forgot to check the stats for a while, and I looked today and am flabergasted. There has been over 2.6 million page views since April last year.. that’s in 18 months!! and for the last 5 months we receive about 1 million hits PER MONTH! And all this without counting …

walking down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh this past August, wasting time with both Hanan and Arif, we wondered into a tartan shop as I was looking for the Irvine threads (Frances’ clan) but we got to see quite a bit more during that quest, Arif first noticed these: I, of course, couldn’t resist asking …