Aussie fined for Dubai drunkiness – nope, not me

In local (Dubai) news, as well as back home, Australian football (soccer) player Craig Moore has proven to be a total dipstick here in Dubai by starting a “brawl” with a taxi driver over a 50 dirham fare. The story goes, he also assaulted the arresting officer. Thankfully for him after getting bail, he was […]

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Christmas in Dubai

This year we had our first Christmas in our adopted country, Dubai. Being a Muslim country and away from all family, it was always going to be different. But it was still extremely enjoyable with some good friends taking the usual place of family. It seemed that most of our friends went home, or decided […]

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Straight to the point

Today the lady from across the road dropped in to say goodbye to Myles, as they were leaving for Tasmania this morning – before joining me in Dubai in four weeks or so. Myles, as usual, was straight to the point.  When she said goodbye to him, he almost immediately changed the subject when he […]

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Arrest my wife

On Sunday I was outside on the couch reading the weekend paper while my four year old rode his car around the nearby table.  I started a game where I was a police officer and as he approached me I would ask to check his license. Then I’d give him a bit of a warning before […]

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