Busy time

We have had the first dust storm of the season, makes for a very hazy, hard to breathe kind of day. You get a level of dust on everything that is outside. We have some friends that are moving to Dubai, they had their Yard Sale on Friday during the dust storm. Sale was not real successful but my dear wife got a bunch of new plants, and I got an outdoor bar to go with my charcoal grill.

What is a fairly normal weekend like in Doha, the dullest city on earth, well on Thursday we went to Garvey's Irish Family Club for supper, drinks and a going away party for the above mentioned Yard Sale? Friday morning we helped at the dusty yard sale and went to a Trivial Pursuit party in the evening. A couple of weeks ago, some of us entered a Pub Quiz night at the Rugby Club and got embarrassed, came in next to last, wrong end of the lineup. The Trivial Pursuit Party was to practice; problem was we used the Brit version so some of the questions were a little off the wall.

Sat was haircut day and time to arrange the travel for home this summer (more later), then we went to dinner with a couple of new people in town, (plus 5 old friends) to introduce them to Doha fine dining (Applebee’s). If that didn't give us time to relax, tonight we are going to a B'day party and then Comedy Night at the Ramada. Hope they are funny enough to keep me awake, at my age, all this running around is tough.

Next weekend, is Dunestock 07, (http://www.dunestock.net.qa/) a 12 hour music fest at the singing dunes on Friday and then I am going to the Superbikes Moto races on Sat.

Like I say, there is nothing to do, but I get more rest during the work week than the weekends.