Its Time to Get Funny Again But It is Not Happening; A Catastrophic Day Reported In Great Detail; Banner Day Defined and Contrasted; Catastrophe Defined; No Emeritus ID But Some Patience; Flooding at the St. Regis Prevents Admittance; Back to Premier Inn; Limbo Defined; Make Way for Sheikha Fatimah; Cloud Seeding Leads to Puddles

I am perfectly aware that it is time to get funny again but it is not going to happen. Why? Because everything is going wrong. The former state of optimism has disappeared completely and for…

Sometimes I Cannot Believe How Stupid I I am; Missing New Year’s Eve But Getting a Video of Fireworks From Grandson; Coffee Now in China Cups in Abu Dhabi; Meeting Two Wonderful Women Lawyers in the Loo at the Yas Mall; Being the First Louvre 2022 Member; A Proposal By Me; I Absolutely Love the Apple Business Team; Photos of Bag, Card and Mummy

This absolutely has to top it off. I thought today was New Year’s Eve – nope it was last night. I made that realization at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Well, I did think…

Receiving an Unexpected Honor; Honor Defined; Music to My Ears Researched; Life in Abu Dhabi Totally Charmed; Two More Marriage Proposals; Children May Perhaps Be an Option Even at My Age; MADD a New Enabler, Most Blessed, Helpful and a Muslim; No Identity But a Wonderful Time at Immigration Offices. Photos of Me, Little Boy and Accidental Shot

I received an unexpected honor this morning. I did of course google the concept of honor and this was found on Wikipedia. “Honour (British English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is the idea…

Reporting a Miracle on Christmas Eve; Miracle Defined: It is High Time to Be Funny Again; Advice From Grandson; David Sedaris Brings Joy with Yelp Reviews of Christmas; Neff’s Highly Intelligent Thoughts on the Celebration of Christmas in the UAE: Photographs of Gingerbread Man Being Consumed

Today is officially Christmas Eve, but by the time you will be reading this – it won’t be, it will be over and done with for you my gentle readers. Christmas 2020 will be history….

It Could Only Happen to Me; Seventeen-Fifty Not Five-Fifty; Perfect Preparation Yields Chaos and Disappointment;No Qatar Airlines Presence at This Airport; If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It Defined and Illustrated; Photographs of Pakistani Porter, Empty Crib, Breakfast and Me in Strange Head-covering; I’ll Be Home for Christmas at the Grand Mosque

If you follow my blog you are thinking: Where Is She Now?You: So you are in Doha, Qatar at the moment.Me: No, actually I am not. Everything went wrong. Despite all of my thorough planning.You:…

Thoughts Upon The Trauma of Leaving One’s Country; The Exploitation of Some Workers in the UAE; Possible Solutions by Other Middle Eastern Nations: I a Resident in Never-Never Land, The Idiom Defined; Consolation Defined and Illustrated; The Woes of Immigration; Excerpts From How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda; Plight Defined; Funny Story from Breakfast

It is early morning – sunrise, prayer time in in thirty minutes, the sky is beginning to brighten. My morning routine has been disturbed as my coffee maker has the day off – his first…