As usual

As usual, another rubbish Eid. Last year I enjoyed the day at least, as for the first time in more than a decade it felt like a day that was marked as special. This year at least it was noticed as Eid, but between the lockdown and the usual hollowness of making a celebration for […]

Moon sighted?

News is coming that the moon has been sighted in Pakistan, shortly after the former science minister gave a statement that it would be scientifically impossible to sight the moon in Pakistan tonight. Rumour has it that the prime minister’s wife, the peerni as she is known, declared that Eid could not be on Friday […]

Moon sighting

Thursday is Eid here in Turkey, and in most of the rest of the world. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the usual nonsense continues. After the triumph of science last year, the science minister and information minister have changed portfolios, and the new minister, a particularly unimpressive son of a great poet, hastily announced that the phases […]

Slapstick

This morning, I was idly looking out of the window when I saw what appeared to be a very large duvet walking across the terrace of one of the flats opposite. It soon resolved itself into a large man bundled in a duvet. From this a hand emerged and dragged over a seat. This is […]

A small tumult

News from Lahore, of a marriage planned. It was not unexpected at all, but both very pleasing and very sad as the intended is the offspring of a dead parent’s dearest childhood friend, and she would have been very happy indeed. Although also, undeniably, the tumult would be a large one, not small. Also, I […]

A struggle

I am finding work a struggle these days. It is certainly a cycle I go through every now and then, and it can be quite soul crushing. This was supposed to be a working weekend as I have some stuff due tomorrow and much to catch up on, but I managed almost nothing. Very frustrating […]