http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week my young housekeeper got married to my neighbours' head groom. I could be concerned that she was too young to marry at seventeen, but she'd been orphaned a few years ago and that is a rather maturing experience. She's been working since she was about fifteen to provide ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=13 I'll bet you never knew that Audubon Society and some of the other conservation groups started with women's hats. Not the connection that most of us make, but that is true. At the turn of the century it was the fashion to decorate women's hats with feathers, parts of birds ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=12 I stopped by Diwan, a lovely bookstore in Zamalek, the other day when I ventured into town for some reason that I've already forgotten. Stopping at Diwan is like stopping at a chocolate factory for me. I am a serious book addict with a fairly serious library of books ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=11 A few weekends ago in November, from the 17th to the 20th, The Egyptian Agricultural Organization, the national Egyptian Arabian stud farm in Zahraa, held the National Egyptian and International horse shows, four days of some of the loveliest horses you could imagine.I went on the first and third days ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=10 We needed some supplies for the new land, supplies that you can only get in a farming village, so Tracy and I headed over to Hawamdaya with my head groom to buy them. Hawamdaya is not on any tourist map, in fact it's barely on any maps. We get there ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=8 Yesterday was a very special day. It was November 5th, the birthday of my late husband and of a good friend, Erin Munro, but it was also the wedding of Mayan and Arthur. Mayan is the daughter of one of my best friends in Cairo, and the older sister of ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=7 A week ago on Saturday my favourite riding partners opted to go on an exploration with me to see if we could find our way from the paddocks to the Wissa Wassef Museum. According to Google Earth, the route was very straigthforward, simply an extension of a route that we ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=6 A couple of days ago I walked over to the land to check on progress. I found a couple of men working at digging trenches along lines that had been drawn on the soil in powdered lime, and another group of men mixing cement next to ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=3 A couple of days ago I walked over to the land to check on progress. I found a couple of men working at digging trenches along lines that had been drawn on the soil in powdered lime, and another group of men mixing cement next to a large pile of ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=5 It's the first day of autumn and the temperature outside is 35 C or 95 F. Everyone I know is taking the afternoon easy if it's possible. But it is the time to get the fields ready for the winter berseem crop and the date harvest started last week. All ... http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/livinginegypt/?p=2