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Qatar, where can our children play?
I read an article the other day in a British newspaper which said that one in three children hadn’t climbed a tree in the past year. This gave me significant pause for thought, because my little boy –...
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‘Edited’ expat lives: What tales do your albums tell?
Recently, a friend shared a parenting blog post entitled “When photos lie.” It pointed out that the way we use social media these days allows us to present an edited, photo-shopped version of our...
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The trouble with being a working mother in Qatar
Think most expat women in Qatar spend their days around the pool drinking Frappuccinos? Think again. Government statistics show that the majority of them – 60 percent – now have a job, and their...
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The audacity of Qatar’s litter louts
Qatar’s weather is glorious at the moment. After months spent surgically attached to air-conditioning units, the country’s residents have been unleashed, and are now revelling in the warm (but not...
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Is Doha approaching ‘Carmageddon’?
This week, I needed to check our post. Due to a shortage of post office boxes in Doha, ours is actually located in a branch around five miles away from our house. When we arrived in Qatar six years...
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The end of our expat adventure is nigh
When I arrived in Qatar for the first time in March 2009, I pretty much wanted to leave immediately. If you’d have given me an airline ticket and told me to head straight for the airport, I would have...
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What’s on your Qatar ‘bucket’ list?
My previous post announcing our impending departure from Qatar got a lot of attention. This was due, I suspect, to the transient nature of all expat lives here; watching someone going through the...
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Leaving Qatar? Get your admin together, and breathe deeply
Back in January when my husband submitted his resignation, we made a promise to each other. We pledged that we’d both do our utmost to make the most of our last three months in Qatar – to enjoy every...
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What I will – and won’t – miss about expat life in Qatar
As we get nearer to our departure date from Qatar, we’re engaged in an endless series of goodbyes; not just to people, but also to places we’ve visited and become fond of over the last six years. But...
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Expat life in Qatar has made me treasure my vote
There are many differences between Qatar and UK life that I’d anticipated; things that were so obvious they weren’t even really notable, like the safer roads, the cooler but frequently disappointing...
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