paper in all it's guises (ok some of them anyway)

Over the last month or so Stu and I took part in a paper recycling drive, called "My Tree In Dubai", launched by EEG in March. The idea was to recycle 60kgs of paper, and earn one of 250 trees that would be planted in Dubai. If you managed to qualify your tree would be named after you. The only hassly part was having to take the paper down to the center in Beach Road, but the rest was easy, and fun, especially considering there was even a facebook application where you could update the weight deposited with the date, and a few more leaves would be added according to how close you were to the target as a percentage.

[the plaque]

local organic veggies....at last!

I am extremely excited to read about the opening of a farm shop selling locally grown, seasonal, organic fruit and veg - right here in Dubai! The best part is, it's just around the corner (kinda). The produce is grown at their farm, which is on the Dubai-Hatta road, about 50kms from Dubai.

I will check the shop out Sunday morning I think, and let you know.

The farm's name is Nazwa and the story in the National can be found here.

Did I mention how excited I am? ;-)

the Russell tour of Dubai

Yes, it's been a while since I wrote, I know. I have two good reasons (excuses) for this, first, the hard-drive on our laptop crashed during the night, about 2 weeks ago. It seems that a particular windows update that downloaded and installed itself automatically (this little Vista nastiness has now been disabled) conflicted with the anti-virus I was using causing a crash. I removed the anti-virus but then the machine would not boot properly, anyway, long story short I did a panicked backup, removed a whole lot of programs, bought a new hard-drive just in case and now the problem seems to have gone away. But nevertheless I will be installing Windows 7 on the new drive and hope that it's slightly less evil than Vista. Next step is a Mac I think.