National Day

Well the Egyptians did it and fabulously I may add. An amazing, peaceful and civilised revolution so, congratulations to all Egyptians and I hope you really do get what you have been fighting for rather than just another form of dictatorship. What is happening in Tunisia? Has the popular revolution there backfired? I hope not. And in Algeria the security forces really seem to be clamping down. Enough of that as I am just a poor, dumb pigeon that managed to escape the pot in Egypt.

I got the spying perverts across the road very worried last week as I disappeared for a very long period of time. I wasn’t on my ledge all morning and they didn’t know it was because the weather wasn’t very pleasant, and I had an asthmatic fit because of the dust in the air, so I went and hid under a tin roof. That really ruffled my feathers.

By the way everybody, I am off on holiday again at the end of this week. I can’t face staying in Kuwait over the national day holiday period. First of all, the decorations are absolutely disgraceful. They are the most unbelievably, poor, cheap, shabby, falling apart decorations I have ever seen in my life. Quite unlike the other Gulf countries that have really beautiful lights for their celebrations. The lights in Kuwait are typical of everything these days in Kuwait. Some well connected thieving contractor gets a contract to put up the lights and he gets paid, say, a million dinars. He spends 100,000 Dinars on the lights and pockets the rest. Our authorities couldn’t give a damn as they have all received their cut and that is that. As a result, Kuwait looks like the poor relative in the Gulf. Which country is more corrupt? Us or Egypt? Maybe the Egyptians will change things but it will be very difficult as it seems to be ingrained. I’m crossing my fingers.

So, as I was saying, I will be away for the tin pot celebrations here. I am off to the South of Spain. I am going to have a quiet, cross country trip where I don’t have to see any foam spraying neanderthals bothering passersby. I’m sorry Neanderthals, I’m sure you were better mannered and more cultured than this lot of pithecanthropuses. Or is it pithecanthrepussies