I rushed home from work on Thursday grabbing shopping on the way and found myself straight in the kitchen. Usually I like to cook for guests on a weekend so I can take my time and enjoy watching things come together (also all the chopping, dicing and throwing things in the pot can be quite […]
After about three years of putting up with a dodgy oven that scorched the bottom of everything, we finally replaced our oven. The babies have been pestering me for ages about baking with them and I have been fobbing them off with the dodgy oven excuse. Now that we had a new oven, I couldn’t […]
Alhamdulillah at the end of last month I have been married for 10 years. When I try to imagine a woman who has been married for 10 years, I think of someone matronly and responsible, someone serious and sensible. But in reality, although my responsibilities have grown, I don’t feel very different to that girl […]
The Big Book Bubble recently brought their Book Top to town and I decided to take the kids along.I loved how the entrance was a wardrobe full of furry coats reminiscent of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. There was an elderly lady in front of me who asked the organiser why there were […]
The newest edition of InCulture Parent is out now including my column “Seperating Faith from Culture in Islam”. This months column came about as a result of a discussion between me and my sis-in-law. Please do take a look and leave a comment. An extract is below: “I had an interesting conversation with my sister-in-law recently […]
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 […]
I was recently sent some products to review by Tamese and Jackson, a British Company that has developed a range of halal toiletries free from alcohol, pork and other animal based ingredients. In additon it is free from GMO’s (genetically modified organisms), parabens and does not test on animals. The website outlines what halal means, but […]
Ramadan kareem everyone, don’t you feel the difference?I have spent the last few days fretting about how I will manage it all – work, the early morning meals, preparing iftar, praying taraweeh. So I went off on one yesterday and the better half had to calm me down.Then yesterday evening we got the good news […]
A work colleague had asked me to do some repairs for her and once I had my beads out of the box, the creative spirit, or maybe just greed for some new jewellery, awakened.This long necklace was inspired by my leopard print scarf The necklace alternates between sandtone chips, moonstone chips and black glass crystals. […]
It was my cousins wedding last week and an absolute pleasure to get dolled up, turn up like guests and enjoy the food them come home. No hassle, no preparation, no to-do lists and no trauma or drama, which Pakistani weddings can be great for. It was segregated as some of the sisters wore niqab, […]
Ramadan kareem everyone, don’t you feel the difference?I have spent the last few days fretting about how I will manage it all – work, the early morning meals, preparing iftar, praying taraweeh. So I went off on one yesterday and the better half had to calm me down.Then yesterday evening we got the good news […]
I was recently sent some products to review by Tamese and Jackson, a British Company that has developed a range of halal toiletries free from alcohol, pork and other animal based ingredients. In additon it is free from GMO’s (genetically modified organisms), parabens and does not test on animals. The website outlines what halal means, but […]
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 […]
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