Strange shopping trip

It's sometimes strange what you finish up with in your shopping trolley. On Monday evening we went to get some petrol and a pint of milk. Sheila went into the shop to get the milk and a few bits and bobs and I went to the cash machine to get some dosh. On the way into the shop I stopped at the for sale notice board and browsed casually thereon.

I spotted an advert for a house rental that looked really nice and was a good bit cheaper than we are currently paying. Just to satisfy my curiosity we drove round and met a couple coming out of a house in the street. I asked them about the area and believe it or not they invited us into their house for a look round as it is the same as the one we had seen. We were pretty impressed and arranged a viewing for last night. When we looked round the actual house I can say it was a complete "no brainer". The house is beautiful, everything new, all appliances, all mod cons.

Tomorrow I sing up and we are on the move again. Its a little further to school in the morning but not much. It has a smaller pool, little more than a plunge pool but apart form that everything else is much better. Watch this space for some photos in due course.

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The King and I

Here is a link to the video that appeared on TV here in Bahrain. If you know how to jump to 8 minutes and 15 seconds then thats where you'll find the start of the good bit. If you don't then the first 8 minutes and 14 seconds might be a bit boring!
Video of us meeting the King of Bahrain
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Special Post

Well, well, isn't it a long time since I posted. I said I would stop if there was nothing worthwhile to say and I have to admit that for some time life here has been pretty normal. Nothing exciting, nothing untoward. We attended the St Andrew's night ball and more recently a Burns Supper. All of that however pales into insignificance when compared to tonight's events. This afternoon Sheila and I were amongst a select band of Scots to be given an Audience with Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain. We met the King in Shakira Palace and shook him by the Hand. His Excellency Iain Lindsay, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Bahrain introduced me to the King and told him that I was an excellent golfer (probably because I recently beat him in a challenge match and knowing that the King himself is a keen golfer). I am really mixing with the important people now you know. Sheila shook his hand too and exchanged a few words of greeting.

The Bahrain TV cameras were there and loads of photographs were taken. I hope we might be able to secure a copy of the pictures that were taken of us whilst we were being introduced. The inside of the palace was absolutely amazing. We got two wee cups of tea and a glass of orange juice (which definitely was not out of a safeway bottle).

By the way it was the King's birthday today too. Nice of him to delay his pairty to see us.

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