(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's interesting to see the pictures on our screens showing the masses swarming Europe's borders. ...

The shell which almost killed them all had come with no warning, sounded no different to the thousands of others scudding around the blu...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Search engines are funny things. There they are, making billions of dollars out of giving you what...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The pollution is staggering: the air is grey with it, the sunlight dappling the twisted tr...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It must have been wittering about Gin Pahits yesterday that put old times in mind or something, but I foun...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One and a half ounces of gin, half an ounce of Angostura. It's a very odd thing to put i...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Back from Wales, off to Helsinki. Well, why not? We've been whizzing around Pembrokeshire on our new m...

The first Ferris wheel from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Funny thing to name ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I posted the other day about stumbling across a trove of old articles. Here's another one that amused ...

Image via Wikipedia My heart sank as we walked into security at Belfast's 'George Best' City Airport and I saw the Group Four lo...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has come out and said he wants a regulated web - "You need to hear our limits, our red lines" he...

As if you needed any, above is incontrovertible proof of my long-held assertion that Modhesh is evil. Yesterday, largely unheralded, was ...

Many will likely remember the story of little Ola, whose sheer liveliness and spit captivated Ussa Nabulsiyeh's Sara and sparked an on...

We live by the sea in Northern Sharjah. The other day, after the bout of bad weather that trashed our brand new and unused gazebo, we notic...

Image via Wikipedia This excellent article in the New York Times got me thinking about Dubai's greatest success story - its airline, Em...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I do have a number of pet hates. You know, things that any reasonab...

Image via Wikipedia Don't forget young Jan Palach He  burnt a torch against the Warsaw Pact Modern history has been changed by men wh...

Sarah Walton over at SandPitDiaries was kind enough to give me a 'Life is Good' award, whatever one of those is. It comes with so...

Image by Max Braun via Flickr I heard a radio ad this morning that rather stopped me in my tracks, for no particularly good reason other th...

Image by ♥Melu♥Rogi♥ via Flickr For some reason this reminded me of this !