Last week Amelia turned one. Cushla and I can't believe she's been here a year already! She is growing up fast too, she can boogie with the best of them and loves to shake her bootie to the music!
The saddest thing for her is that there are so few kids in our apartment her age. QF are still mucking us around over the new accommodation that we should've been in a year ago!!
Sentences involving piss-ups and breweries spring to mind. Luckily the locals don't get a chance to stuff that up also as their religion forbids it. Still some of the Subbie (sub-continental) drivers must be getting paid a fortune judging from the amount of booze they have on their trolleys at the one booze souk in this backward land!!
What's wrong with them drinking I hear you say, they're only human! The thing is that your liquor licence is based on your salary and the powers that be let you spend up to 15% of your monthly salary on the poison of your choice.
The plot thickens when you hear that only infidels and non-believers can hold a liquor licence and positively curdles into big lumps when it is revealed that the licence is granted on production of a letter from your employer stating your salary.
So on paper, Doha has some of the most well paid drivers in the world - the proof of it lies in the booze laden trolleys groaning under the weight of bottles being transported daily (excepting Ramadan of course) to the late model Toyota Landcruisers waiting in the car park.
This has absolutely nothing at all to do with our gorgeous daughter of course but once we get the green light to move, hopefully in May is the current rumour then she will have plenty of kids to socialise with. We absolutely love having her around and she is a constant delight.
She's a bit grumpy at the moment cos there's some teeth coming thru but generally is a happy wee thing. I'll post a picture of her at her birthday party.
The saddest thing for her is that there are so few kids in our apartment her age. QF are still mucking us around over the new accommodation that we should've been in a year ago!!
Sentences involving piss-ups and breweries spring to mind. Luckily the locals don't get a chance to stuff that up also as their religion forbids it. Still some of the Subbie (sub-continental) drivers must be getting paid a fortune judging from the amount of booze they have on their trolleys at the one booze souk in this backward land!!
What's wrong with them drinking I hear you say, they're only human! The thing is that your liquor licence is based on your salary and the powers that be let you spend up to 15% of your monthly salary on the poison of your choice.
The plot thickens when you hear that only infidels and non-believers can hold a liquor licence and positively curdles into big lumps when it is revealed that the licence is granted on production of a letter from your employer stating your salary.
So on paper, Doha has some of the most well paid drivers in the world - the proof of it lies in the booze laden trolleys groaning under the weight of bottles being transported daily (excepting Ramadan of course) to the late model Toyota Landcruisers waiting in the car park.
This has absolutely nothing at all to do with our gorgeous daughter of course but once we get the green light to move, hopefully in May is the current rumour then she will have plenty of kids to socialise with. We absolutely love having her around and she is a constant delight.
She's a bit grumpy at the moment cos there's some teeth coming thru but generally is a happy wee thing. I'll post a picture of her at her birthday party.
