Two days ago we had this ferocious sandstorm – it was a bit like being in the middle of a hail storm except that the wind was warm and you were being skinned alive by small sand particles rather than stinging hail stones. You couldn’t stand up in it, although I see a little figure […]
Speaking of that wading bird (as I was a few entries ago), here he or she is. Nope, no idea(what it is), but looked very dramatic flying off with big black wings.
Coming home on Friday for a week and so will have to go down the souq!Last time I was there, a well-built Japanese lad was attemting to get up on this poor donkey. He tried from the left side, he tried from the right; some passers-by attempted to give him a leg-up with predictable and […]
Lurking in and around every large and usually stinking metal bin in this town, you will find a cat or three – completely wild and tolerated because they do valuable work in controlling the population of rats.A recent campaign had the cats taken off the streets for neutering and then returned to their usual part […]
Was attempting to get an image of a black heron-type bird and got this instead. Nice pic, what?
Justin Gatlin has been denied the world 100 metres record he had claimed last Friday at the IAAF Super Tour meeting in D*ha. According to the International Association of Athletics Federations, Gatlin ran 9.766 seconds, not 9.76 secs as first thought. Under IAAF rules, that time should have been rounded up to 9.77 secs – […]
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