What is it these days with politicians trying to score another term using cultural taboos? Or trying to protect us from ourselves by initiating a theo-fuzz department sponsored by that brainiac Jassmo Al-Saidi, and mannequins again by Majeedo Karimi… But the actual facts speak for themselves, Bahraini men are much more insecure about relationships than …

A Muharraq Municipal Councillor is furious after his proposal to ban scantily clad mannequins from lingerie shop windows was apparently ignored by his colleagues. Majeed Karimi suggested the ban last November, but he says that since then it appears to have been “lost”. He now plans to submit the proposal for a second time at …

Looks come first for 70 per cent of Bahraini men when it comes to choosing a wife, says a survey released yesterday. But while the majority of men want a beautiful wife, just 28pc of single Bahraini women are looking for a handsome husband, according to the lifestyle poll. It was conducted amongst 300 unmarried …

Spider, Queen of the Hill, originally uploaded by malyousif. The garden is in turmoil at the moment, we got fed up of how it looked so we hired a landscaping company to rip it up and redo it again to our specs and liking. The dogs are completely lost with all of this work, but …

Green Insect Originally uploaded by malyousif. Found this little critter while gardening, never seen anything like it before and don’t know what it’s called. It does have a body like a locust, but the head on the locusts I remember is not as pointed and they’re normally brownish in colour… Any idea what this thing …