Little Lady was using my laptop this week and she wandered onto my Pinterest page where she had a board. Her immediate reaction was embarrassment at what she hah pinned in the past. She immediately set about deleting her old pins. I stopped her to take some screen shots before she got too far. Her […]
During the Christmas break, I had about two weeks off work to coincide with the children. So before the holidays started I tried to do some planning and work out what we could do on different days including visiting family on alternate days. We agreed we would visit my sister in law on one of […]
The first time someone called me Aunty, it kind of stopped me in my tracks. I was about 19 or so and thought – me? Aunty? As it was a small child, I thought it was kind of sweet and it made me feel quite grown up. Now many years later I am an aunty […]
It seems to be big news right now to find your purpose, discover your joy and drop everything that’s making you miserable in your day to day life and head to Europe, or Bali or India and hang out in ashrams or outdoor cafes (if the title of this post doesn’t make sense it refers to the best-selling book Eat […]
Yesterday saw my office raising funds for Breast Cancer Awareness month with a coffee morning and book sale. I decided to don pink hijab as I do every year and turned up to work to find everyone else had forgotten. A colleague bought me a pink cupcake and we had a look around the table […]
On the recommendations of our host we visited the Falkirk Wheel, a rotating boat lift that connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal in order to open up the canals for use again. The wheel was interesting and the park surrounding it was lovely with a lake, Roman walking route into a nearby […]
We had a rather sweet Mothers Day this year, the day was spent eating strawberries and playing badminton in my mum’s garden and oohing and aahing over the babies (Darling and my sweetheart niece who likes to hug her). A lot of Muslims don’t celebrate Mothers Day saying that for Muslim’s every day should be Mothers […]
How many months had I been putting that off? It took 15 minutes. Much better. And I even found the purple hijab I’d been looking for for ages.
International Women’s Day took place during this week. Little Lady went on a school trip to a war ship with a female captain and got to talk to some of the female sailors. I jokingly asked her at some point if she was a feminist and she replied with an incredulous no. That was it. […]
With the winter holidays here and Christmas falling in the coming days, most schools in Western countries are busy with Christmas related activities and parties. Certainly my children’s teachers are organising parties and there are pretty lights and Christmas trees and decorations everywhere you look. Over the years I have explained to my children that […]
I attended an interesting talk this weekend for the female family members of those people who are active in a local group of four or five masjids, so this would be trustees, board or committee members, imam’s, emirs or leaders of the masjids and generally people who were involved in the day to day running […]
A few weeks ago Shutterbug Sister asked if I wanted to take the kids to Sea Life London Aquarium. Both Little Lady and Little Man had been there on school trips and Shutterbug had been there before and taken some gorgeous pics, so I was really keen. I have taken the kids on a train […]
I attended an interesting talk this weekend for the female family members of those people who are active in a local group of four or five masjids, so this would be trustees, board or committee members, imam’s, emirs or leaders of the masjids and generally people who were involved in the day to day running […]
I came home from work today to find Little Lady in a bad mood. After some sulky faces and a sullen silence, I managed to find out what was wrong. She was annoyed she’d been stuck at home all day. So I asked her to come to the butchers and grocers with me, which she did, but […]
