Cheers drive

My first couple of days have passed in a bit of a jet lagged haze here in ever so sunny Doha. Note to self, no need to look outside to check the weather as it's always going to be clear skies and sunny. Apparently rain is a major event here, like everyone stop what you're doing and go outside it's raining type thing.  I look forward to that.

The first two days at work have been great, although on day one I did slip into standby mode a couple of times. It was pretty hard fighting my brain telling me it was clearly bed time when in fact it was only lunchtime. I just sniffed the soap to bring me round. I should point out that I was at the lovely Lush shop, not just randomly pulling chunks of soap out of my bag to sniff.

The shop is lovely they had a refit last year so it's all shiny and the team are all shiny too. I'm so very lucky, I just hope the soap sniffing on day one didn't disappoint them - I was much better today I managed full conversations and everything, jet lag be gone! I was also tremendously excited by the huge number of other British brands in the mall where the current shop is. I know that's probably a bit sad but Nelson wasn't exactly a shopping mecca.

I also managed to find myself somewhere to live today, score! I'm going to be sharing a nice villa (OK house) with a Canadian,  American and Croatian ooh get me. It's on a lovely compound with a pool and it's close to the one and only booze shop in Doha. Yay! I'll be in the hotel for a bit longer but that's all good, I need to get a bed sorted first!

OK time to sign off I'm running out of steam, jet lag not quite be gone. I will finish this post with a brief note about the driving here. It's best described as bonkers, in the most part due to the vast number of cars on the road. After the quiet roads of New Zealand it's a bit of a shock to the system. I feel like all the traffic I escaped in Blighty over the last 19 months has passed in front of my eyes in the last two days. Even my in built sat-nav skills are going to be tested here. Thank you to my lovely company for deciding it's best I don't start driving for the first few weeks.  I will be saying cheers drive for as long as possible me thinks.