Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
What society hostess who prides herself on her gourmet cooking has invested in mega magnifying glasses for next time she cooks?
Apparently, she swilled in a large helping of what she thought was golden caster sugar into her luxury shortbread biscuits recipe only to find when they came out of the oven that it wasn't sugar at all but ground semolina! Yuk!
What a waste of all that lovely Lurpak you might be thinking, surely no one could eat such an unpalatable sugar free, flour, semolina and butter mixture? Wrong! A girl from the valleys came to the rescue, scoffing whatever she could and taking the rest home for Fido ... one man's poison is another's dog's dinner, it seems.
AN imbibing friend of the Whisperer is still trying to fathom the marketing reasoning of the beverage division at Bahrain Duty Free Arrivals' Shop.
Apparently this week's special offer is buy one bottle of white grape drinkies and get another bottle FREE! Great ... but as your duty free allowance means you are allowed to only take ONE bottle into the country, what happens to the other one? Do you get to bring it in without penalty because it's free? DO you have to pay Duty on it which then means it isn't 'free'?
Surely the whole point of a marketing campaign is to increase sales, but if you are travelling with a companion then this will result in only one of you making a purchase as your two bottle quota will then be fulfilled ... this one is nuttier than a Snickers bar!
Embarrassed Dilmun Club member Lorna admitted to having a "blonde moment" after purchasing three beds followed by three orthopaedic deluxe mattresses which do not fit their bases.
She is now trying to sell the mattresses, 90cm x 200cm, for the "equally stupid price" of BD20 or nearest offer, around half what she paid for them less than 10 days ago. She added: "My eternally understanding husband will deliver them free."
A Barbar businessman and his wife were held up at a money exchange outlet in a large Dubai shopping complex when they tried to change a pile of Bahraini dinars into the local currency.
The counter assistants had never seen the new-look notes and feared that they were forgeries. Copies of the notes were faxed over to head office to ensure they were legitimate as security officers kept an eye on the red-faced couple who had tried to explain their innocence and that the new notes had just come into circulation in Bahrain.
Twenty minutes later they were allowed to set off on their planned spending spree.
