Dear Carpetblogger, Yours is an absolutely best blog I have ever, ever read, and am now eagerly reading all your older post.... So intelligent, poisonous and refreshing. Myself now, snoozing with an invalided kitten in Croatia ( another mad country), but I have also lived in Middle East ( addicted to it, sorry...) for a very loong time...Of course, I also share the crippling and dangerous love for the kilims and carpets, though in my seaside apartment, I have but one average, average kaskhai, and hand-embroidered Kashmere one...( was poor at the moment of purchase) I send you love and sincere wish that you have many, many more wild nights and days in your wonderful oddisey, inshaallah