Hello dear reader and welcome to the 129th blog.
As President Bush gets ready to say farewell to the White House, we here at the CIOBS Academy blog say our farerwell!
As you recover from the shock of the above, let me cheer you up by saying unlike President Bush we will be returning in a couple of weeks with a bigger, better, brighter and blooming good blog.
The new blog will be part of the re-vamp to our website.
So plenty to look forward to then!
But, before I go it's farewell from me and farewell from Raymond albeit for a short sabbatical!
I must finish with a "is this true?"
Well, what about the row over whether Dubai Television should broadcast the television cartoon series The Flintstones.
A spokesman for the channel said: "It was claimed that people in Dubai would not understand Fred Flintstone's humour. But we know that people in Abu Dhabi Do."
Sorry about that.
Michael (Missing you already)