Winners

We've had a run of good luck in our family lately. When Andy bought his new car in June he was entered into a lucky draw. Thinking that nobody ever wins these things, he promptly forgot about it until the other day when he got a phone call from Arabian Automobiles telling him that he'd won a family holiday to Hawaii! Instead of calling me in an excited frenzy as I would have been sure to do, I received a one line email saying "I've won a holiday to Hawaii". Yeah, yeah I thought but nevertheless called him to get all the details and indeed we had won a holiday to Hawaii. The problem is that it would take a very, very long time to fly to Hawaii from Dubai in fact there aren't many places in the world that are further away. Doing the calculations, it would seem that we could fly Dubai - Singapore - Tokyo - Hawaii. Or..... Dubai - London - New York - Hawaii. Either way you look at it, not a fun prospect with 2 small children. Since our move from Asia, we were also kind of thinking that we'd give really long haul journeys a miss for a while. Luckily for us, the competition prize could also be taken as a cash equivalent which after a quick think we decided to take. Since moving into our lovely new house, we have realised that we need some new pieces of furniture so we're choosing to spend our windfall on that.

The same week, Andy and I joined some friends for a weekly quiz at a local golf club. We're proud to report that we won by a margin and the 4 ladies in the team were presented with jewellery vouchers to spend which was rather nice for a Tuesday night out. They say that good luck comes in threes so watch this space.