Izdihar - Magic Kingdom Escapology

A quick security update for you: The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved". Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A… more »

I suppose much of what blogging is about, is 'observation' - as one of my recent commenter's so astutely observed, it's the detail. This particular detail is a few days old now, but it has stuck with me and keeps playing across my mind. Television round… more »

In an ideal world, this place would somehow probe the deeper meaning of something somewhere, but instead it continually rattles off the minutia of life; a trip here, a happening there, perhaps a snippet of life previously unreported. Did you know that… more »

Some days after the return to work and there seems to be a return to the position in which we found ourselves before I departed for the festivities. Things look much as they did before providing a sense of ambivalence - on the one hand things are no… more »

For anyone now wishing to read such things, my About page now contains something more than a place holder. Thank you for listening, you've been a wonderful audience more »

Inspired by Ellie over here, as I don't think she quite believed me when I suggested she provides such, I thought I'd [ poach / recycle / adapt / embellish - delete as applicable ] my comments from her latest post and see what if anything it amounted… more »