7 nights 7 raves

Hello all,

Long time no blog. I have just returned from my annual, week long drum and bass excersion to Spain! I danced for 7 nights in a row, boozed all day and slept very little. My favorite beverage was strawberry daquari made with ice cream...yummy. I can't believe that I still love raving so much, after all these years. Sure, I am grown up and responsible and all, but there is still a party animal inside me. And no matter how much I hold back from drinking at home, there is no doubt that I still love a good booze up. My poor body. I'm studying paramedic science and know exactly how much strain I've just put on my body. A little bit of knowlege is a dangerous thing. So I'm ignoring all of this and just thinking f***k it, you only live once. Love to all and sundry.

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your assistance is required

Hello all,

Heidi needs some help this time. And judging by the responses received from my last request for help, you will have received the same request via email before you read this.

Heidi’s Year 11 class are going to read extracts from Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson. They are then going to write their own Notes From An Even Smaller Island (Bahrain).

But she needs something that will give them a bit of a background idea about the British psyche. She thought about starting off showing them an episode of Only Fools and Horses or Fawlty Towers, but I need some other ideas.

My ideas are the PG tips ads, The Sun and Eastenders.

The rules are that everything has to be locatable online - Youtube is fine, I think - depends on what is being advertised around it.

Please email Heidi - heidiarnold@gmail.com - with suggestions or post them here.

Thanks all

XxX

Newnham Jr??

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And i thought it was just one of the newnhams that was at glastonbury this year....

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congratulations to John and Em

morning all,

just a quick note - and it will only mean anything to those that have met him - to congratulate John and his missus on the birth of their baby boy.

well done son.

Good luck with everything and if anyone gets a photo - even you john - can you post it please.

take care.

XxxX

attention all tea drinkers

Hey ya'll

as you all know i am a philistine and an English heretic in that i don't drink tea.

Please use the comments facilities to tell me why i am such a doozer and why tea is so great.

special mention please of its cooling qualities.

In fact, can you please post any food/beverage tips for staying cool in the summer.

thanks all

XxX

this is kinda funky....

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new shiny things

Hey ya’ll.

This is just a quick post – I bought myself a laptop on Thursday and have spent the weekend downloading and installing lots of free software. I write this office 2007 – which is kinda funky – listening to excellent FSOL from 1993 which I didn’t pay for either. God Damn I love the internet!

But yes, everything seems to be in order, we are good to go.

Did anyone watch the Nadal Semi final yesterday? It rocked. But then I guess you would have all been at work – see there are some advantages to the crazy Arabic weekend.

My Yemen article finally was published this month and it looks great on paper. I am dead chuffed as it goes.

And we are going to be hanging out with the Yemeni and Syrian ambassadors tomorrow night. Hopefully a few wise words to the Syrian dude will expedite my hitherto somewhat tricky visa application....

Fingers crossed.

As ever, keep on trucking.

XxX

Comments please

Is this really the best that they could come up with - to me it looks like something i might doodle during a very boring phone interview.

I mean - what does it say about London, about the Olympics. about anything? It looks disjointed and not in a good way.



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Just feeling a beet sad

Hello everyone,
I'm not feeling very happy today. All I know is that it started about 6.30 this morning when my driver put the radio on and Together In Electric Dreams was playing. I don't know why but it upset me a beet. Half the school is leaving and my best friend is going too. Bahrain is a very transient place, and no one really stays here very long, so I guess you end up losing friends each year.

The weather is extremely hot at the moment, and it feels as though I have nothing much to look forward to, but a long hot summer spent working on a department that will barely meet UK standards, if I am lucky.

Tim and I went to the rather lovely Trader Vics at the Ritz-Carlton yesterday with our friend Shane and we got talking about taxes and stuff. It is depressing to think that people pay to send their children to a sub-standard school because it is better than the free alternative. I know I cannot talk because I currently don't pay taxes, but really, you are very lucky to live in England, where things come as standard. If there is one thing I have learned, it is not to take those things for granted, they are a true luxury. Hope I don't sound too self-righteous...

I hope the England is looking lovely, I cannot imagine what some things feel like anymore. In many ways we have life much easier here, anything I want I can buy, including a cleaner and a driver. However, I miss public transport and 'real' drinking, not just going to nearest five star hotel, and more than anything good friends that stay in one place!

Take care lovely ones, as you can tell missing you a lot.
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