by Deborah Quinn | Nov 10, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, Politics, surat al-sabt saturday snapshot, UAE
Workers planting flowers in the roadside flower beds. Everything that grows here, pretty much, needs to be irrigated. These flowers are planted in between rows of black hoses – but even then, the flowers don’t last long. For some reason, begonias are often...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 1, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, environment
It’s summer. We moved here last August and it was Very Hot. It’s June 1 today and already it’s hotter now than it was last August. How hot? Really hot. For those of you thinking “it’s a dry heat, though, so it’s not that...