Monday 23rd February 2015
Who would have thought I could ever take a couple of hours out of the madness of this modern life to enjoy lunch with a friend? Twenty days ago, this would have been impossible. Merely leaving my desk, let alone the office, during lunchtime was frowned upon and in fact outright denied.
So now as I very slowly get used to the idea of unwinding after twenty solid years in post-university paid professional work, I get to eat lunch with one of my closest Dubai girls, Gita. She treated me to a grand salad a la Galleries Lafayette…