I have been a bit slow the last few days. Struggling to get up, slow to get anything done. I’ve been feeling demotivated and letting the late cold snap and an ongoing cold get to me. So when I woke up yesterday I had a long list of things to do all going round in my head […]
I have found myself with writers block recently, something that doesn’t bother me recently. After a month or two of not writing very much I am starting to realise that there might be a reason for the writers block. On one hand, one of the reason’s I started blogging was that I needed a creative […]
Long ago Mr Removal man (aka my beloved) brought me home a nice slim cupboard which I had fantasies about organising my toiletries and accessories in. Over the years it has become a bolt-hole for all kinds of things I have accumulated. I left it open the other day and it caught my husband’s eye […]
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I had promised Little Lady a party when she finished reading the whole Quran. She finished last month, but as my sister-in-law was due to give birth around the time, I delayed a few weeks until my beautiful little niece had arrived. Once my darling niece was here, we picked a date and started pulling our ideas together. […]
With all of the new babies recently mash’Allah and the weddings to come insh’Allah, I think I am going to be making quite a few baby and wedding cards to last me and other family members the year. These are the first few and the ribbons (and these) sent to me by iMuslimah certainly came […]
I have been planning to have a pamper session with Little Lady for ages. When my husband was away this evening, I thought it would be nice for us to spend some time together. She helped me got the babies changed and into bed and the boys into their room. Then once it looked like […]
What voyage are you grateful for? Of all the holiday and trips I have been blessed to make, there is one that is more precious than all of the others. It’s been 15 years since I made my hajj journey with my husband in unexpected circumstances. That year my husband had been with the local […]
After a month long break I finally started in my new job today. The original plan was to leave my old job and start in the new one the following week. I think I would have started the new role on a high and full of confidence from my previous job. As things worked out, […]
One thing that jobs in the public sector all seem to have in common (common to all of the places I have worked in anyway) is their love of long, boring meetings. If you can say it in an e-mail, in a few words or in a quick meeting, then it will be said in […]
Most days when it’s this cold, it’s a struggle to get out of bed and I wake up head-achey and blurry-eyed. This is the second day running though that I am getting out of bed full of energy and bursting with life. I feel like I did when I was 18 and was so skinny […]
Eid-ul-Fitr was very pleasant this year alhamdulillah. We kept it fairly simple without lots of decor, parties or fuss. I couldn’t manage as much and Ramadan went by so quickly that I wanted to focus on it whilst it was here. The other issue we had was that we had Eid on Thursday and the […]
I have had one of those days. Okay, maybe one of those weeks. Our office is being reviewed for potential redundancy and at the same time the work is coming thick and fast. This is probably one of the first times in my career when I have come this close to saying “I can’t complete […]
I don’t often go for science fiction, but some of the best books have read (e.g. John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids and Z for Zachariah by Robert C O’Brien) have been of this genre. I particularly like Post-Acopolypse type books – imagining what the world would be like after nuclear war. This book is a uniquely […]
