Metropolitan life

We know that we live in a multi ethnic society. Sit on a bus, stand in a queue, look at the children coming out of school and it is clear that they or their parents come from every corner of the earth. And yet some corners are still missing. Seen any Eskimos recently and what about Finns or Nicaraguans?

I was charmed by a piece of paper which dropped through our letterbox which offered the services of a 'very honest and reliable worker, willing to help senior citizens to maintain there homes, hovering... no job to small...I am willing to do most things".

Tarok now cuts the grass, he has cleaned the windows, cleared the kitchen drain, power washed the patio and now gone back to see his family in Uzbekistan ! There, it turns out, he was a tax official.

Reminds me of a visit to Sicily, standing at a bus stop when a woman turned up and said something which elicited no response from the waiting passengers. Slowly she said "Does anyone speak Italian?" There was an embarassed shaking of heads!

And in Dubai recently, only English to be heard.

So the world is turning into a tower of Babel.