• Happy New Year!!!

    Hello 2012! I hope you are kinder to our family than your sibling. He was a complete *insert expletive here*. How did you all spend New Year’s Eve? I spent mine laid up on a sofa feeling sorry for myself. We had to get our hire car back into London Victoria by 3pm so decided …

  • Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

      This will be the last post of 2011 for me, I think! We fly to the UK on Monday the 19th of December and will not be back in Doha until the 2nd of January. This will be our first Christmas in our home country, after ten in the Middle East! We spent our …

  • November Rain….

    Well, November draws to a close. And I couldn’t be happier. What started off with a LOT of promise, went rapidly downhill in a major way. I started my degree in Textiles, if nothing else, I’m LOVING that and that’s flying along. If you haven’t been to Souq Waqif yet and had a look around …

  • For the Fallen……..

    For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is …