No one knows for certain when Shakespeare was born. The fact that he was baptised in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon during late April, has suggested to many authors that his actual birth day was April 23rd, which is, coincidentally of course,...

We often need reminding that simply because we leave a place, things don't stand still in our absence. It has been eleven years since I last visited Al Khobar in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia - a place I lived in, almost continuously, for ten years....

Delays on my e-ticket to Saudi Arabia have meant something of a stay of execution, so I'm still here in Cyprus, happily blogging away. In view of news items about religion, most notably the atheist bus in the UK, and the increasingly worrisome polarisation...