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With regard to the photo competition for the BRFC reunion in last week’s GulfWeekly, the picture is of me. I also appear in the bottom left photo.I do not wish to win the dinner-for-two, just to say ‘cool’.

Michael Doporto,

By email.

Check who has won: See Bygone Bahrain below.

It was interesting to read about Joseph Tito’s plans to produce a movie celebrating Arab women and helping to break stereotypes, on page one of last week’s newspaper. I think that women have always played a significant part in the Arab world despite the negative images portrayed in the Western press.

They are the traditional backbone of all strong families here and play a role children can only dream about in Europe nowadays.

I know of a mother in the UK who holds down three part-time jobs to help pay for a private education for her children and an annual holiday abroad although her husband earns a good wage.

I’m sure the children don’t know who their parents are. They were dreadfully behaved when they visited us here and I couldn’t help thinking that it would never happen in Bahrain.

Maxine, Riffa Views.

Your Techtronic Specials page in last week’s GulfWeekly was superb. I love looking for electrical bargains and was on the lookout for a Samsung Galaxy Tab at a reasonable price. I went straight to Carrefour and bought the one on offer. Keep up the good work and can we have more gadgets on the page – there are new ones out all the time and we’d love to read about them!

Hussain, Muharraq.

Editor’s note: No sooner said than done. Charlie Holding’s gadgets of the week are on Page 7.

The editor of this newspaper is not a happy man (or should I say, he is decidedly more miserable than usual) after a rescued stray cat made a nest in a bedroom wardrobe and delivered four kittens on his neatly-rolled collection of silk ties.

His suits, shirts and trousers are now scattered over the washing machine and tumble dryer in a bathroom and his wardrobe emptied by his children so as not to disturb the family of felines. It has been suitably kitted out with blankets for the nursing queen and her young ones. They are said to be ‘doing fine’ unlike the editor’s blood pressure.