Hi Wannabe friends,

This little Blog started out as way for me to combat homesickness by writing about home and life away from home. Those who know me are used to receiving long rambling emails talking about life in the UAE, or Qatar, or Egypt or all the other places we have been fortunate to live. This seemed to be a good way of only having to write one account for everyone.

However, much to my surprise and delight, it seems there a lot more people out there interested in this stuff. Which is Great!

Of course that means I want to try and do this better. Soooo, over the coming weeks I am going to improve the site, the layout, functionality and navigation. Can’t promise to make the content any more funny, interesting, or entertaining. After all it’s already fantastic. Probably. But I’ll try. So watch this space and see things change. If you have any thoughts or suggestions for how I might improve it, please let me know. Going away and never bothering you again is not an option, so forget about that.

Also coming up in the near future will be a feature on a wonderful and very talented local artist called Charlie Roy. Charlie lives not far from us in Scotland and has painted a few pieces for me. Currently, he is the Prog Rock artist of choice as you shall see.

I am also planning on introducing you all to the Craigellachie Hotel, give an account of our recent stay in the amazing Burj al Arab 6* hotel in Dubai and offer a consumers opinion of some of the better boutique gins to have sprung up in recent years.

It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it.

So until next time, be happy and remember, guide gear comes in sma’ bulk.

Self portrait by Charlie Roy, Scottish artist extraordinaire