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 ...

I can justify that headline. A man called Books reserves his, Books', books of books. There. Meanwhile, adding to yesterdays frankly ...

Of all the reviews on Amazon for my books, my favourite of the lot is for Birdkill:  "This is a cynical negative, depressing bo...

Manama Post Office In an odd quirk of philatelic history, several of the Trucial States (prior to the formation of the UAE) issued...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) During the recent hurricane Irma, a number of Tesla owners stuck in the traffic fleeing the path of the sto...

Dubai has its own typeface, Dubai Font. And I have to say, I love it. Cool, contemporary even a tad, dare I say it, futuristic. Creat...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Oh golly, oh gosh! I nearly missed it. Happy Birthday, Fake Plastic Souks! Ten years ago this month, I was ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've slipped into the warm waters of a happy limbo since the LitFest. I've had little enough to sa...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) No post for almost a month. Golly, poor blog! Dubai, London, Liverpool, Haverfordwest, London, Copen...

I've stalled on the new book. I've written not one word since before the Summer hols. I made some notes and stuff in Belfast and ...

(Photo credit: thms.nl ) I occasionally dip into Sitemeter, the natty little analytics widget I don't use very much, to see what ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There I am minding my own business yesterday and then wooah what was that? It's a strange fe...

(Pic from Google Earth) We decided to take a hike north over the weekend - it's literally years since we were last in Umm Al Qawa...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) You think you've seen it all, but 7Days today reports on a British expat teach...

conformity (Photo credit: the|G|™ ) Something of a departure from the usual aimless half-thoughts, this is a list of half-thoughts....

Cover of Object 47 Finishing Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy has been something of an event for me. The way it went at the end, words t...

London bus - London eye (Photo credit: @Doug88888 ) So a friend has her mum out for a couple of weeks, right? And she decides to take h...

English: The first Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777F (A7-BFA) in Frankfurt (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The is the definite article. It i...

Last year, you may recall two ships landed on the beach outside our front door after their crews had lost control in bad weather. The two ...

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