Spot the camel among my pre lunch party detritus...
Two weeks ago I hosted a ma’salama lunch to
say goodbye to a friend who was departing Saudi. There were twelve of us as well
as four or five children. Because we’d all been part of a quilting and craft
group, I decided to plan some kind of Saudi themed craft activity. I remembered Christmas Day and the good
family fun we'd had racing Kiwis. These
were small wind-up toys, which on the count of three, we let loose to race down the coffee table. That was the plan. What
we learned was that small wind up toys tend towards circulatory rather
than forward movement. Progression was haphazard with more than one Kiwi leaping over the edge of the table. It was total chaos and heaps of fun, as was
testified by the squeals of laughter from the smallest member of our family.
