I think I have found a way around the problems of loading WordPress sites here in Oman thanks to a Firefox Add-on 🙂
A happy bunny again: it means I do not need to keep pasting https as a prefix on every site I read.
Firefox – I am sorry for all the nasty things I have said sometimes when updates make my life hard.
David A Lockwood 
Public abasement to FF – that was very funny! Interesting too…for about 4 months I could not open links to any WordPress blogs that came in via email. So, I bookmarked yr site and when I saw an advice email (that never opened properly) I’d just go to the link. About two weeks ago, everything went back to normal…
Hi,
The vagaries of the internet………
Got the email by the way – will see what I can do.
David.