Gah!
Our net is really attrocious at the moment. Its taking hours for anything to load. Lots of sandstormy activity mucking with satelites. We're still having loads of visa dramas but are getting more and more chilled out about the whole thing. Inshallah things will work out...shwey shwey and all that. Its either that or go nuts.
There's much to post (mostly photos) but until the net works properly I won't be able to get them up...maybe this weekend. Jo and Laurie are coming down from Khobar to stay for a bit because they are whelching off the Canada to work in a few weeks (fed up with Saudi) so they're trying to catch up lots. So for anyone who wants to visit Canada, they're the people to butter up:)
The cats are here and driving me MENTAL as expected. I'm just waiting for Shinji to fall down the stairs so I can laugh... (pictures to follow upon working net)
Went swimming this morning and the water has changed from about 30 degrees to 10 overnight ...its Freezing! and there are crabs about 20-30cm accross everywhere...I got mightily bitten by one because I was rude enough to step on its head. The water here is really murky unless there's no wind so I'm pleading innocent.
All the winter Saudi fashion is in the shops and I'll take some photos of the Thobes. They look like Royal purple and brown robes. Pretty cool. We've also been invited to a Halloween party here...going to see how that goes.
Feeling pretty uninspired today...this whole waiting game for visas is tiring. They've also begukked up my temporary one today because it expires today but they're sending it to the government on Saturday due to a change in the rules. Anthony got somewhat shirty and might have been rather undiplomatic... Yet to see. So anyways when we have better net and less stress I shall post many photos and all the other interesting stuff that's happened the last week or so. (There is some...just can't think about it ...hmmm if I remember rightly it all involves food:))
There's much to post (mostly photos) but until the net works properly I won't be able to get them up...maybe this weekend. Jo and Laurie are coming down from Khobar to stay for a bit because they are whelching off the Canada to work in a few weeks (fed up with Saudi) so they're trying to catch up lots. So for anyone who wants to visit Canada, they're the people to butter up:)
The cats are here and driving me MENTAL as expected. I'm just waiting for Shinji to fall down the stairs so I can laugh... (pictures to follow upon working net)
Went swimming this morning and the water has changed from about 30 degrees to 10 overnight ...its Freezing! and there are crabs about 20-30cm accross everywhere...I got mightily bitten by one because I was rude enough to step on its head. The water here is really murky unless there's no wind so I'm pleading innocent.
All the winter Saudi fashion is in the shops and I'll take some photos of the Thobes. They look like Royal purple and brown robes. Pretty cool. We've also been invited to a Halloween party here...going to see how that goes.
Feeling pretty uninspired today...this whole waiting game for visas is tiring. They've also begukked up my temporary one today because it expires today but they're sending it to the government on Saturday due to a change in the rules. Anthony got somewhat shirty and might have been rather undiplomatic... Yet to see. So anyways when we have better net and less stress I shall post many photos and all the other interesting stuff that's happened the last week or so. (There is some...just can't think about it ...hmmm if I remember rightly it all involves food:))
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