Another shitty day in Paradise

Just to explain, this is the view from my bedroom window at 7 this morning when I opened the curtains.......I thought you might appreciate it, what with the weather being so rubbish where you are........

My apologies if you got home yesterday and logged on in desperation to see what dreadful things had been happening to me over the previous 24 hours.  I’m slightly behind the curve because, you had better sit down for this if you’re not already sitting down, I had to work until midnight last night………..

I know some of will find that hard to believe but it’s true.  Even harder to believe is the fact that it wasn’t even my own work.  It was a nice old boy who was having trouble with corrupted tables in a report he was writing and as we’re all in this together I offered to try and sort it out for him – which took till midnight, but what I don’t know about licensing slaughter houses and organising weddings now isn’t worth knowing about !

I’m keeping this simple because I have a busy day today which will see me in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai for work, rest and play (so tomorrow’s blog may be a little late as well……..).  It’s our Friday night here and I’m going to meet some old colleagues from Iraq in my favourite beach bar in Dubai tonight, which isn’t that far from my 5* hotel (did I mention that I got a 5* hotel for £61 a night on lastminute.com…….) and as luck would have it my favourite bar (Barasti – you can look it up if you like.  Apparently it holds the world record, or something, for the highest takings over a weekend, or something.  I’m led to believe that they took over £500,000 in 2 days, not because it’s any more expensive than the rest of Dubai darling, but because it’s enormous) – no, where was I, oh yes, Barasti is virtually next door to the hotel that the world famous author, James Barclay, is staying with his family for a few days, and seeing as he was my Best Man on the happiest day of my life it would seem rude not to join him for a spot of tea and cake !

Right, have to go and do something useful.  Today’s notable aspect with respect to inventory has to be the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs that I had for breakfast – jolly nice they were too !  I did have a bottle of beer last night as well because the chap who’s software problem I was fixing insisted he buy me one and who am I to refuse !