Category Archives: Doha – Qatar-2009

Final day, and have spent hours putting photos on this blog…struck me that in all the ‘posts’ I hardly mentioned school or teaching. So weird as it dominated all my thoughts and actions from August last year through till July. All the various … Continue reading →

Bought the newspaper yesterday  and predictably there was a small piece on the front page quashing any rumours about cheetahs or tigers. To quote, “It’s all rumour, so one must not lend an ear to it….some of the complaints were … Continue reading →

I got an email from a friend, working in Qatar Academy, in the mighty Education City (the ‘baby’ of Sheikha Moza) and read with alarm  that their compound was being closed and a helicopter was on the way as a … Continue reading →

Had such a funny dream…I was auditioning for a part in a musical and the Queen was my accompanist. We were such a team, she plonking away and me trilling out ‘by the bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond’. It … Continue reading →

Woke up in a cloud this morning. The view from the 33rd floor of the Zig Zag was Zero. It was almost celestial. I half expected to see an angel or two plod pass the window. Busy week, ‘back’ issues … Continue reading →

That’s the actress I was thinking of…huge eyebrows and clownlike lips. Scary.

As I write this I am watching the third of the Chilean miners being reunited with the wider world. I actually felt emotional for this one, as he hugged and hugged his wife, who looked a stoical sort of woman. … Continue reading →

Just finished a fantastic book about the Mitfords, Letters between six sisters. So intimate, and when I think of last week I didn’t know anything about them suddenly I am an authority and feel as though I have lived the last … Continue reading →

Today I’m procrastinating… again. I have the manuscript of The Highland Games beside me, with all of Fiona’s comments over it, and now I have to sort it. It’s daunting, but not nearly as bad as when doing The Great … Continue reading →