"Modhesh", Arabic for amazing, is the mascot of Dubai Summer Surprises. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) You know it's s...

Sorry. Meant friend, not fiend. The return of the yellow friend. Every year we see the smiling little dear trotted out to decorate the rou...

Image via Wikipedia Dubai is embarking on a bargain basement bonanza as the summer kicks in, flogging off package tour deals that beggar bel...

Golly! Has it really been ten long years? He's started to pop up around the city again, little splashes of yellow now adorn every street...

Gulf News had its day today with the news that UAE businessman Abid Al Boom had his assets frozen. The paper first ran the story last week ...

I don't know what it is with people and Modhesh. Last year one grumpy blogger even went so far as to refer to our cheery little yellow f...

Oh dear. I don't seem to be able to stop myself! All sorts of naughty 'Modhesh is Evil' scenarios are unfolding in front of me!!...

In celebration of the 1000th member of the chucklesome Facebook Group: proof that he is, indeed, evil. Hmmm... I can feel a meme coming on...

Like many other people who write blogs, I started this so that I could be witty, frothy and generally entertaining. There's little doubt...

So much has been written about Dubai’s congestion charge, Salik, that it’s difficult to contemplate adding to what’s already out there witho...

Today's Emarat Al Youm has a news story blaring the great news that retail sales in Dubai have gone through the roof this summer, obvio...

One of the things that’s kept me so long in the UAE is the fact that it’s such a very paradoxical place: there’s never one simple answer or ...

The bloke in front is a serial recliner and has knocked the bottle on my food tray over twice. The bloke next to me is a hairy-armed expansi...

How strange. This blog set out, at least in part, to be a good-natured celebration of the rich source of amusement to be derived from the qu...

Driving down a desert road the other day, deep into the dunes on a four-lane ribbon of blacktop snaking into the distance, I saw two men sit...

Looking at visitors to this blog (thanks for dropping by: hope you had fun), it has to be said that many are people that have been searching...

You know you’re overdue leave when every small incident seems to bring that red mist down and you feel like you’re spending most of your day...

What is it with pronunciation around here? My office is above Lal’s Supermarket. Try and tell that to anyone calling to ‘Ask your location’....

Sharjah’s bottled gas companies still ply their trade, operating an instant callout service with their rickety orange trucks laden with rust...

As predicted earlier , the SMS infrastructure that's underpinning the Salik road toll in Dubai has been providing some unscheduled summ...