Having revisited the site more than 20 years later last Saturday, Dr Sheppard described how “depressing” the scene had become. “I don’t know of any sort of destruction like (the one at Fasht Al Adhm) happening elsewhere, it was depressing,” he said. “In the last 20 years, there has been a massive shift of corals …
There is an excellent investigative and opinion piece in Al-Wasat today about blogs and blogging in Bahrain by Adel Marzooq (Arabic). He raises quite a number of questions which require some mulling over and addressed – maybe at our next bloggers’ gathering or through a series of posts (or podcasts?) as thinking about them can …
Saturday, with nothing better to do other than pottering in the garden and in the depths of the folders and documents I have in this computer. Lo and behold what I found: my full name! Ready, deep breath and read this (this is going to be my full email address at gmail too): السيد Ù…ØÂمود …
Filbert, going walkabouts in the garden, originally uploaded by malyousif. Taking Filbert out several times a day to the garden or to be with his mother for a while, which she uses to feeds and encourages him to fly has become a tradition in our house-hold. It’s fun spending time with them in the garden, …