"You want a Crash Course on Fridges", Isha laughed, "Sure. As with my tips on using stoves, hot water, laptops and energy saver bulbs, watch your power bill."

"It tells you a lot if you are listening."

He poured in his visitor’s cup. The cup was soon full, but Nan-in kept pouring.

The tea rose to the rim and began to spill over on the table.

Nan-in continued pouring.

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Marjina convinces the Haqeem that Qasim is very sick & then Mustafa to go blindfolded to sew the corpse.

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Alibaba observes Qasim's full mourning rituals. But why wash a dead body if you bury or burn it anyway?

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With mutual distrust growing, thieves widen their search and discover Mustafa.

He tells a noteworthy tale...

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Captain of the thieves identifies Alibaba’s house & returns to hatch a deadly plan.

Death comes knocking...

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Hosh explains degrees of burns to prove why pouring boiling water on all robbers together won’t kill them?

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Super-heated oil, water or sand were deadly thermal weapons in ancient warfare.

Could Marjina use these?

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Marjina brews a deadly cocktail for her guests using oil & weeds.

Hosh reveals why she chose to use these...

The Captain rose early the next morning.

Disguised differently again, he rode back into the city.

Dismounting outside a karvaan serai (caravan inn), he went straight to the Inn keeper, and struck up a casual conversation.

It is our brain that translates words to create meaningful images.

To do this, it needs to know both language as well as the context.

Comprehension created from words will be wrong, if their translation or context is wrong.

Retold Arabian Nights Tale: Ali Baba And 40 Thieves 25. Alibaba goes to the secret cave when thieves make no more moves.

What he finds, changes his life forever.

Isha teaches how to cook Aloo Jira, cumin spiced fried potatoes.

Eaten as delicious nibbles or mains with yoghurt.

Quick, simple & healthy Indian cooking recipe

Miss Nuyen started bubbling over with anger, but years of ritualistic practice held her down.

"Namo Amitabh Buddh, Namo Amitabh Buddh..." she continued, trying to hurry through the 10 minutes frantically.

"Animals also have some special dietary needs," Josh agreed, "You can't feed your goldfish chicken bones."

"The bone is probably bigger than the fish anyway!" Rosh joked, "And you can't get your dog to eat grass clippings".

"I don't think I could handle any more stammering animals, pet," Isha smiled down at him, "One's enough in this household."

"And by the way, animals do stammer!"

"Senior Management is happy as it believes the workforce has become efficient, customers are happy because they believe the company is delivering value for money, and workers won't squeal because they need jobs. Whoever bells the cat, won't be making any friends. So, I guess for the moment, we have a stalemate."

"As long as he pretends that you are getting a fair wage", she responded, "you can pretend you're working hard. Outlast him."

“How are you feeling, Richard?” Hosh asked.

"I've never felt better, Doc” Richard beamed back, “I have a 20-year-old bride now. And she is pregnant with my child. What do you think about that?"

“Since the cost of replacing floor coverings in most of the separate areas was individually less than my policy excess, they declined to pay most of the replacement cost on the grounds that each individual event within my claim was uneconomical."

"Interestingly, the assessor had initially confirmed to me that the whole house would be covered and given me the go ahead to get it all replaced quickly to mitigate loss of rent while the house sat untenantable due to damages. The assessor later denied they had given me any verbal confirmations of cover.”

“If we want to be great, we should learn to have habits of the great. Discussing people and their follies, like we are, is futile. In doing that, we become no more than the three raindrops.”

“Raindrops?” Josh was perplexed.