fringes of nature

Mainly for Fishy, who wants to see some photos. We just went out to Diri'yah, a large town on one side of Riyadh. It's where the Royal family of Al-Sa'ud come from, and from which they conquered the vast lands of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

We drove down in the valley. There's still some nice rocky bits and huge farms of old wise-looking date palm trees, but then there's almost as much landscaped areas now. I preferred it natural.

this one looks out of place, but its got nice colours.

you can see the defensive mud wall for Diri'yah above the valley-side.

LEAVE IT ALONE. its' nicer natural.

Salam everyone, just wanted to say that its sunnah to fast A'shura', (the 27th of this month), so it'll be a good thing if you all fast it, and one day either before or after it. A'shura' was the day Allah saved prophet Musa ( Moses ) - peace be upon him - from the pharaoh of Egypt.

narrow avenues -or so they seem-.

I wish some people would read this and I wish some people wouldn't read this. I'm so depressed and wish i weren't taking sciences and maths for A-levels because that's not what i'm good at.maybe youre wondering so what are you good at and thats a very good question only i'm not sure i know the full answer. i know i'm not studying much. thats because when i come to study i don't feel like studying anymore if you know what i mean. i think it'll be nice being a doctor only that chemistry is mostly boring and bio is mostly long.and i'm sure i see things in a different way than most scientists and mathematicians because our answers to problems are usually different.

i can argue with you for hours about this problem only that arguments don't change the reality. but what is the reality? is not whats proven by argument? so am i saying that arguments change the perceived reality?and not pure reality?so how will we ever know pure reality because whoever tells us reality will be telling us from their own perspective.

oh sorry, i forgot to establish the problem which i'm trying to solve, because i know theres a problem but am not sure what it is. is it that i'm not satisfied with what i have? or not satisfied by what i'm doing with what i have?

Istirahah trip...

Driving on the way to the istirahah, it rained and rained, and the weather became gray and windy. The wind-screen wiper wouldn't even work because Ibraheem broke it the day before playing football. And abi and Ummi were coming later on because Ummi

had some work to do, so it was me driving the car. Ibraheem thought he had a solution so I could see where I was driving; he used my new shirt which I had brought along; to wipe the wind-screen. When it became too difficult to see I stopped the car and re-wiped with my new shirt. At least it really cleaned the wind-screen.

At the istirahah, as us boys were playing football, before sunset, the wind really picked up and it started raining again. With the cold rain the wind also turned icy cold. There was no more sun, which is nearly phenomenal in Saudi. The weather was more like England, and it was beautiful. It reminded me of England, and everything there.

But anyways, we were playing football all the time, so I hardly sat down and thought all these nostalgic thoughts.

We prayed Maghrib and I'sha combined because of the weather, which was still very cold and rainy. Later on when almost everyone left, us boys sat in the tent with Mahdi and Little Muhammad and had some of their mum's ginger beer and some mint tea.

Alhamdulillah, it was the best 2nd Eid day I can remember.

Just starting to rain near our home.

football field. You can see the wind in the trees.

the grass smelled like England's too. cold and soily.

haha, muddy shoes.

more mud!

team talk, between two football matches.

Zayd posing as a cold tramp.

That's where you shelter ( and drink tea ). haha.