One essential skill for blogging in Jordan is the ability to do so without breathing-or at least inhaling. I don't think that Huttonian has ever been to a country in his diplomatic travels which has more smokers than in Jordan. It is a way of life here.I don't recall meeting many doctors who didn't indulge in the weed. No smoking tables in restaurants are besieged by many more where smoking seems actively encouraged and even when eating outside as we did the other night the air was laden with fumes like the good old London smog of years ago. Using an Aqilah (water pipe) is really cool and socially desirable. Ramadan with its month of abstainance from sunrise to sunset must be almost unbearable and some I fear have to resort to the quick surreptitous drag in the loo to keep going. As I post I have a young lady to my left puffing away, charmingly-and a cheroot smoker to my right not dissimilar to Thomas the Tank Engine.
Jordan has one of the highest lung cancer rates in the world. But few seem to mind.
Oh by the way. Huttonian seems to have been read by some one at the highest level. (although perhaps not as high as
www.godonlyknows.blogspot.com The ragged standard on its 500 foot pole has been replaced. Overnight.
Thats a result for tou.
