Oh, dear. Three months have passed and no post at all. Is the Fake Plastic blog dead? As Hemlock pointed out the other day , most of...

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

Birdkill written, I needed a cover image for the book. The title was simple enough, the original short story was called 'Martin...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I got an email this week from somebody announcing they were a 'Dubai-based foodie fashionista' and l...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I first met Jordanian blogger, trouble maker and Converse-loving spectacle rack Roba Al-Assi at the inaugura...

(Photo credit: _DaniloRamos ) Or if you prefer to be Amerikee about it, everything is awesome. I've been very offline for the...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I think this is the longest I've ever left the blog unattended and it really shows - there are weeds gro...

I've gone and done it again. I couldn't help myself. I've published another collection of 'best of' posts from years...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's one of the most witless emails I've received in a long time, from a company calling itself ...

When I hammered the best (IMHO) bits of the first two years of this blog into a book for a self-publishing workshop thingy I was giving...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News' Bassma Al Jandaly reports today on the case of an Indian university lecturer who has...

 (Photo credit: Aureusbay ) I had reason to have a quick rummage around in the blog archives recently and was mildly surprised to find ...

I'm doing quite a lot of 'how to'ing recently, am't I? Don't worry, this isn't a book post... This advice does...

delete (Photo credit: M i x y ) You can only begin to imagine the look on my face when I pootled over to the blog yesterday to ...