Another day in the life………

I promise that, as time goes on, this blog will be more interesting than what I had to eat and what my journey to work was like………but in the meantime you’ll just have to put up with my more mundane ramblings.

As an aside to mundane ramblings, I would like to tell you about the lovely evening I had last night.  It started in the usual way, drab drive home from work with my boss (not that he is drab, the conversation is good – we have very similar backgrounds and ideals), but the 150km drive from Abu Dhabi to Dubai isn’t all that interesting (there’s a lot of sand) and because Jules was away (in war torn Iraq – I can’t believe that wartorn isn’t actually one word !) I had the flat to myself.  So, frozen lasagna and salad for tea, and catch up on the third series of Gavin & Stacey for me !          

Then out of the blue (and much to the later suspicion on my good lady wife….) I get a text, then a call, from an old desert friend of mine, who now lives in Dubai, and who I regularly communicate with, saying that she’s in my end of Dubai and do I fancy a drink ?

Well, one thing leads to another and I find myself saying yes (I struggled, but she was too good for me….)  and I find myself laying on some kind of bed, in a bar, on a beach, with a beer, and the most astonishingly beautiful young woman (I Know, I find it hard to believe myself, and I was there !) – what’s more, and I know that this is difficult for those of you that know me, she insisted on buying the beer – I was like a pig in poo !

Before we all get carried away, I’d just like to put all this into perspective – it was only one beer………I know, I can hear you all wailing….but I had to drive.  Killing two bird with one stone I’d managed to ponce a lift from her so that I could go and retrieve Jules’s Porsche from the golf club (we need toilet roll……..).

Anyway, for someone that’s scrimping every penny for the next 9 days, the offer of a free beer and a lift was gold dust……never mind being with a beautiful, intelligent female who was buying beer….thought never crossed my mind (I managed to make my beer last 2 hours though…..but then again, it was only Heineken)……………what a life……………………….

Tonight is only brief, for a number of reasons, but mostly wine, and therefore the inventory reads thus:

Cigars – not very many at all in the last 3 days…..as long as you don’t count tonight

Alcohol: ditto

Food: Diddly squat (although I have found a rather interesting Lebanese receipt that looks interesting

Gym: Moving on at a pace (I can’t be arsed to tell you what I’ve been doing but rest assured, it’s no more interesting than the last few days !)

Weather:  It’s been foggy……..

(I hasten to add that I didn't take the picture.....)

The sharpe pointy thing in the middle is the Burg Khalifa, the worlds talst building........just thought I'd mention it...........

Sadly, and apart from that, I haven’t got a huge amount to say for now……………………….