She really is not that interesting for right thinking people

I'm sorry but I've just got to say it. Luciano Pavarotti died yesterday and both Sky news and BBC World did him proud. Except that as the day wore on they managed to find more and more footage of Pavarotti with that woman Diana Frances Spencer. Please, please can you leave that woman to rest in peace now? It's enough that a seemingly mentally weak billionaire is keeping her inquest going without a load of sychophantic journalists and broadcasters feeling the need to keep her in the public eye in the way they are. DW

The World's Tallest ... Dubai

You may well have seen it first ... right here. The world's tallest building and it's still growing. The world's tallest building is here in this snap that I took last week. Which building is it? Well, it's erm, the tallest one, at the back!!

A debut for the first time!

Oman: just read a notice in the hotel, advertising a jazz pianist and her skills. Apparently, she's making her debut in Muscat for the first time. 'nuff said! DW

A Queue and Yours Truly

So there I was near the end of this snaking and hideously long queue at Dubai International Airport ready to check in for my flight to Muscat and there was an incident.

The people right in front of me were of the stand still type: as the people in front of them moved forward, they didn't. A non English speaking man from behind me tried to get them to move: each time the queue moved and they didn't, he lunged at them ... all friendly and relatively stress free. We then got to a meander in the queue and as these people didn't move forward, someone came round the corner and joined the queue IN FRONT OF THEM. I thought, bloody typical.

The stand still people stood still and someone else joined the queue in front of them, then two others. I took complete control at this stage, beginning with the words "Excuse me ... " Waving arms in the direction of the real queue I announced that they had joined the queue in error and should go to the back. I even spread my arms as if picking up the four people like a conjourer juggles four boxes of matches and lifted them from their current position to the back of the queue in a virtual manner!

The old non English speaking man felt that he ought to join in at this point but I gently informed him that he ought to take care of himself and very gently edged him away: he went.

The pushers in all pushed out and went to the back of the queue as they should have and one of them even apologised for his misunderstanding.

The stand still people said nothing but then did move forward and the queue then behaved well after that.

The non English speaking man said, "Thank you. Thank you." to me!!

Interesting eh?

DW

-- Duncan Williamson

US Senator Sex Scandal

That sex scandal doing the rounds in the US Senate at the moment re the member from Idaho reminds me of that fantastic but equally sad moment from one of those reality Cops programmes from years ago when someone was being dragged into custody and under the nbormal pressure of being arrested he said,

 

Ah's guilty but I didn't do it!

 

Over to you Senator!

 

DW