The Lake in front of our house, originally uploaded by malyousif. You want to know what it means when it rains in Bahrain? Well, this picture sums it up, the streets get submerged and the municipality doesn’t come around to suck that water away, it normally is left to fester until God decides to stop …
But is this the worst to come? We don’t know. The Met office’s next 5 day forecast1 suggests that the temperature will continue to be cold, the minimum is a freezing 10℃ while the max is around 16℃. It is COLD out there! Those of you who are interested in history and records, can refer …
Rose-ringed parakeet, originally uploaded by malyousif. We normally have any number between 4 and 20 – sometimes it looks like more! – of these noisy but beautiful parakeets in our garden. They have made the eaves their home too, judging by the amount of water proofing material they rip up and throw down, as well …
Watchers, originally uploaded by smenzel. Which urinal do you think would be the least used, and which would be used the most? And why?
They say that more business is done on golf courses than in boardrooms. I suspect that there is quite a measure of truth in that statement as the setting itself is very conducive to enable the initiation and conclusion of business deals: plenty of space, a lot of walking, concentration on hitting the ball, quietness, …