What got me to investigate Facebook again, this time seriously, is the recent Aspen conference in which several panellists emphasised the use of social networks in various “serious” fields including business, commerce and finance as well as other fields. This of course put paid to my prejudices against that site and I decided that the …
Year: 2008
Municipal cleanup destroys Capers, originally uploaded by malyousif. No sooner that I have written about the beauty of some Caper bushes found in desolate waste ground, I find while passing the site at around 6am this morning that the local municipality has sent a bulldozer to clear the ground completely! Imagine my sadness, when coming …
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I drove over a waste ground this afternoon and was faced with a huge number of these flowers growing by themselves in the wild. I had to get out of my car to investigate and was gobsmacked to find out that these bushes (and plenty of them) are capers! …
Divine intervention couldn’t have come at a more fortuitous time for the government to start to re-impose another heinous State Security Law, the very one which Bahrain suffered from for 30 years and was the main cause of the dissolution of the 1973 parliament and suspending parliamentary life in this country until it was rescinded …
The Vaandragers at the Farmers Market, originally uploaded by malyousif. A lot of people came out and enjoyed the first Farmers Market this morning on the Budaiya Highway and bought some fresh local produce and enjoyed the other handicrafts and local food stalls. I was fortunate enough to buy a couple of plants from Anne …