‘We British LOVE to queue’. I went to the post office the other day and there were three of us waiting to reach the counter – so we decided to form a queue. We talked about the weather but we must NEVER talk about the kids. In Iran a crowd fights to reach the bus [...]

10. Book Dumping:
I hate it hate it HATE it when a library user decides they no longer want to borrow the book and dumps it in the wrong place. Please please please if you don’t want it just hand it to a member of staff or place it on the hundreds of spare trolleys that [...]

I’ve been following Deconstructing Hairy for a while now since it was recommended by a good friend of mine. According to the author’s profile it is written by ‘an Iranian finally living in Iran’ and follows her adventures ‘on being and becoming an Iranian woman’. Recently there has been one particular post that really intrigued [...]