It is my lot to have to deal, because in some ways I live a complex life, with a number of banking institutions on a regular basis. In s...

Rain Room. Funky outside, funky inside. For the purposes of #SharjahSaturday, Rain Room is a two minute walk from the end of the Ira...

Fen's chocolate cake. This is actually legal . Returning from the desert and its amazing wildlife, the idea is to drop into the ...

I'm wild, baby! Our second stop on #SharjahSaturday, on the 7th December 2019, will be Arabia's Wildlife Centre. This zoolog...

Wildlife. Rawr. Many, many years ago I interviewed a lady called Marijke Joengbloed . She was the archetypal Expat Expert - a woman ...

Al Hisn Sharjah Here it is, folks, the news you've all been waiting for. We're going to find out what's happening in the...

The 'Heart of Sharjah' Friday brunches have become something of a tradition in the Emirates although I have to confess, it&...

I can't remember how we heard about Rain Room. But we did and a glance at the Sharjah Art Foundation website was intriguing, to say ...

(Image Credit: Wikipedia) The car was down at Al Futtaim, going through the process of leaching several thousand dirhams from my b...

Google being brilliant or scary, you call it. If you have an Android mobile and you're online, then take a number of snaps by rotati...

Blog posts are like London buses or policemen. You don't see one for two months and when whoosh along come thousands of the swine. I ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We got back off leave to the much-awaited introduction of Value Added Tax in the UAE. VAT is very much a fac...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) So I haven't posted in over a month. Sue me. We've been on leave. I hate flying, much as I love ...

Sharjah's inland town of Dhaid has an annual date festival. Who knew? We were wending (actually, waddling or wobbling might be more ...

They sound like a subcontinental Trumpton fire brigade , but they're not. They're the rocks of Sharjah's 'antique' ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Roger the Radar Rotter generally lurks around the Sharjah University City area. His favourite places a...

Cometh the storm, cometh the shipwreck. It's happened almost every year for a few years now, although we missed out last year. It se...

The cold weather's here alright, but this is just silly... (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I was ranting on Medium the other day about t...

The unthinkable has happened. The old battered dumpsters that used to line our sandy street have disappeared, each one replaced by two s...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I can remember a chap at a conference referring to mobiles as 'the third screen' (after TV and PC) ...