Despite my best intentions to write, blog and tackle some projects close to my heart, I have been offline for the last few days as my poor laptop died. It survived missing keys, a built-in mouse that stopped working, the kids dropping food on the keyboard (okay that was me) and Darling trying to wrestle […]
The title of this book piqued my curiosity when I swapped it for another book with a friend. I had never heard of it although it is described as a classic.The pair of the title are Ali Khan Shirvanshir a young Muslim aristocrat and Nino Kipiani, a Georgian Christian living in the old-fashioned yet strangely […]
I and Little Lady usually spend a good part of the weekend bickering over homework, but she did this homework without me asking and got me all embarrassed (in a good way) when she handed me what she had written:
Despite a busy week, I wanted to make time for some cardmaking. It takes me time to get all of my stuff out and start putting things together, so I htought I would finish some of my old cards instead which I had started and then left half-finished for various reasons: In the meantime, I […]
Little Lady and Little Man have been attending madrassah (Islamic school) for about a month now. They attend in the evenings after school for two hours to learn Quran. Initially we had a teacher come home and spend an hour with them but Alhamdulillah, he has moved to Madinah to study in the university there. […]
23 December 2005 – Alhamdulillah, settling into lovely Madinah. The weather is beautiful and sunny (21-23 C) with a lovely breeze. The people are kind and the ladies in my group/room are lovely. Keep trying to get to the Rawzah Mubarak to do salaam but have been unable to despite much waiting and trying. Will […]
I went through a phase with Little Lady where I would come home to find her dressed inappropriately every day. A vest and crop trousers when it was cold, party dresses and wedding gear. In the end I put my foot down and insisted she had better be in jeans and a top when I […]
At the moment I am killing time at work, surfing the net and waiting until 12.30 when we are all going to be let out of our cages (not really fair to my employers, but I feel caged up at the moment). I also have one eye on the mountain of tins full of chocolates […]
This book is often used as a GCSE study text although I seemed to have skipped it at school (I think we studied Z for Zachariah instead, which is also very good). I spotted this in a shelf full of sci-fi books at a local charity shop and it was the first one I picked […]
What books are you grateful for? I love books, they have been both my distraction and my sanctuary. They have opened my eyes to the big wide world and been somewhere for me to go and hide. I am grateful to the books that have helped me grow: The Autobiography of Malcom X Women who […]
Oh how I love the weekend, it feels like ages since I have had a proper two days of rest at home so this weekend we will be: Cooking the lovely courgettes my friend gave me from her allotment and making some of these kebabs to go with them. Watching these video’s from Sister Umm […]
I might have mentioned (about half a dozen times) that I have really been enjoying my new job. I have been working across a wide variety of disciplines: strategy, policy, business planning, community engagement and cohesion, equality and diversity, project management, data analysis and research. It has been a good six months of learning new […]
I wanted to make some bunting for Eid, but get tired so easily at the moment and can’t sit for long, so made it easier for myself and designed it on MS Word and printed onto white card. The colours came out better than expected (the colour scheme is one called Metro on MS 2007). […]
Assalam-alaikam, I was recently contacted by a student at Leeds University who is studying under Dr Mustapha Sheikh, who is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies. She is conducting research on Health Education in secondary schools particularly looking at the Muslim perspective and is looking for people to complete a survey giving their opinion on how […]
