First Day Back at School After Summer
The kids are back at school, and summer is officially over. We’re back to early mornings, lunchboxes, school runs, homework, activities — and the everyday logistics of family life with three kids in Dubai
Irina Nevskaya
My wife and the mother of Alexander, Konstantin and Daria. A lawyer in Dubai with a Master of Laws from Middlesex University Dubai
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MINI #52: A Rally Legend Returns to Dubai
At The CARS Café at Dubai Autodrome, AGMC unveiled the MINI 1965 Victory Edition — a modern JCW honouring the Mini Cooper S #52 victory at the 1965 Rallye Monte-Carlo. For us, MINI has long been more than a car: it is a small family generator of joy.
16 August 2008: An Audit of White-Hot Time and the Formula 2 → 5
The calendar presented its bill: 6,574 days under a blinding sun and 43.2% of my life on this side of our wedding day. Through hot concrete and millions of erased minutes, one equation remained: 2 → 5
Irina is a Master!
For almost two years, several evenings a week, Ira traded home life for the lecture rooms of Middlesex University Dubai. Now that long route has ended with a Master of Laws diploma — and another point on our map of Dubai
They Even Let Us Out 🤣🤣🤣
Four years ago they let us out of Dubai Airport: Ira, three children with matching backpacks, and me — still a designer. Only now I’ve realised the escalator never stopped: all this time it has been carrying us through homes, careers, bills, cars and an entire sea towards a new version of the family
Project 80: How I’m Going from 97.5 to 80 kg with ChatGPT
I launched Project 80: a path from 97.5 to 80 kg without magic or heroics. Every day I send ChatGPT my weight, walks, sleep, and photos of what I eat, and it helps me see the system rather than individual slip-ups.
The House That Wouldn’t Let Us Go
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
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Today, July 12, we are moving!
Today We’re Moving from a Villa to an Apartment…
Today we are leaving our old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim and moving to Palm Jumeirah. Moving a family of five took two large trucks, an extra pickup, and the wonderful Union Movers team.
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