If that's for me nomerci, it's missed its mark. I'm perfectly content with what I've got. It just astonishes me that people can obviously have so much more than I have yet feel that what they have got is inadequate. I would suggest that they should be looking for their contentment in something other than the quality of interior fittings.

But, of course, this is Doha, so nothing matters as much as having a better villa and more expensive car than anyone else. What else is there in life?

I don't begrudge the maid nice quarters. On the contrary, why not put her in a spare bedroom inside? That's what we did when we had a houseboy.