Posting will be even lighter than usual for the next 48 hours because I’m heading off to the Red Sea and the Dahab Paradise hotel, where I’m reliably informed it is pretty damned hot, even in October. But with wireless internet access and armed with my iPad, I should manage the odd bit of blogging over the next couple of weeks.
Toodle pip!
You haven’t even got there and you are making free with the biblical analogies, paradise indeed. This nascent spiritulism is unbecoming. Other than that hope you both have a great time and see you when your back
I had no idea precisely where Dahab is but having looked it up I am glad to see that you have not changed the habits of a lifetime by holidaying in a democracy, say, Israel for example, but instead remain true to your natural instincts by continuing to support with your holiday money yet another bloody, murderous tyrant. What went wrong with Cuba, did Fidel’s admission that Marxism wasn’t working put you off?
Even so, I send you typical Arab greetings, something about the fleas of a thousand camels infesting your Y-fronts, or something like that!
“yet another bloody, murderous tyrant.” Yep, Uncle Bob could have gone to the good old US of A and celebrated George Dubya and the $700,0000,00000 worth of blood and guts that have been spilled in Iraq. All for a good cause of course. Duffers, are you related to Satan?
Would that be the “tyrant” who won two free elections?
That’s ‘free’ as in ‘hanging chad free’.
No, that’s ‘free’ as in “the Supreme Court ruled in a 7–2 vote that the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling requiring a statewide recount of ballots was unconstitutional, and in a 5–4 vote that the Florida recounts could not be completed before a December 12 “safe harbor” deadline, and should therefore cease and the previously certified total should hold.”
In other words, because I know you are not comfortable with more than two syllables per word, Councillor, it is free as in free, you know, ‘settled by the highest court in the land’ free.
Now remind me, how many free elections have been held in Egypt? Or Cuba, come to that? Or indeed, any of the socialist, er, democracies you choose for your holidays?
Always eager to be helpful, I am told that North Korea is very nice in the Spring.
Tell me, Duffers, if I am not allowed to holiday in Egypt… are your capitalist friends in the City boycotting it too.
No, thought not!
I thought iPad-toting socialists usually holidayed in Tuscany.
Not unusually, you’re wrong then.