Why is it…

that every time I wash the plants in the garden, the weather turns dusty again? pisses me off! It was wonderful this morning. I did a lot of work in the garden; weeding, washing, cleaning, re-tying, and general fixing, but now looking out of the window, the bloody thing is turning ugly with dust being …

Is this thing on?

I changed the tabber into just a rolling “featured articles” section that rotates through the first 7 latest featured articles. I hope this is less confusing to people. I had to find a solution as the “tabber” feature was the most complained and misunderstood feature on the new site design. I hope you’re okay with …

The Buddha patch

The Buddha patch, originally uploaded by malyousif. I can’t remember when it was that I showed you the Buddha patch last, so here it is as of a couple of hours ago. You can see how scorched some of the plants look. It’s summer. The death season for everything green! Nevertheless, have a wonderful weekend …

Cementing the GCC ties

We’re having yet another “crisis” in Bahrain. This time, it comes in cementy flavour! FOREIGN racketeers are being blamed for a cement crisis which has crippled Bahrain’s construction industry.The suspension of supplies from Saudi is costing Bahrain’s contractors more than BD4 million a day, says sources. [GDN 12.06.08] Let me first confess that I don’t …