January 8th, 2008
Back like your Spine!
Seasons Greetings dear readers! Yeah yeah, I know I’m late but I’ve been on holiday – give me a break. Christmas was… relaxing on the beach in Egypt. New Year was… speeding on the motorway. It was a weird one for me being away from the family and all but passing up the opportunity to see the Pyramids and Petra was inconceivable! Like I said when I got back from Syria – “I’ll post some pics soon” i.e. as soon as iPhoto stops giving me grief. This computer is out to get me, I know it!
Anyway, what have I been up to? Well I’m still working all the hours God sends and to be honest I have little time for much else. I’m still spending half my life on the M1 but it won’t be for much longer… If anyone knows of any library jobs going in Sheffield GET IN TOUCH. I’m well qualified and everything yet still I spend most of my time sat twiddling my thumbs and browsing the Internets. My Google Reader has started to get quite boring too. I need some new reading material I think… something inspiring that’ll make me what to write again.
Things of note this week have been -
Morrissey set to follow in the shoes of Chris De Burgh – That is, he’s reportedly in negotiations with the Iranian government to organise a concert for some time later this year. But I’m not entirely sure whether his outspokenness surrounding the Blair/Bush = terrorists debate is going to go for or against him!
His camp would like their man to agree a date in Tehran this June, ideally with the internationally-acclaimed Arab pop singer Kazem al-Sahir, were he amenable.
Elsewhere The Guardian reports that their correspondent in Iran, Robert Tait, has been expelled from the country with no explanation. Although the Iranian authorities have refused to renew Tait’s visa they have said that The Guardian is free to put forward another correspondent in his place… weird huh.
Tait was forced to leave the country after the Iranian authorities declined to renew his visa and residence permit, despite an appeal on his behalf from the Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, to Iran’s culture and Islamic guidance ministry, which supervises the activities of all foreign and domestic media. He is now back in the UK, along with his Iranian wife.
See Azarmehr for more.
