Last year I cleared the garden out, only to find that over winter it had turned into a dumping place for the things my husband picks up through his removals business: I really liked the idea of creating a nice little haven and particularly somewhere nice for my mother-in-law to sit and enjoy the good […]

Last year I cleared the garden out, only to find that over winter it had turned into a dumping place for the things my husband picks up through his removals business: I really liked the idea of creating a nice little haven and particularly somewhere nice for my mother-in-law to sit and enjoy the good […]

Getting picked up from work by the hubby. Getting a burger on the way home. Having left overs for dinner Taking the kids for a walk. Ice-cream at the new parlour. Exhausted kids falling into bed. A quite night with a good book. Knowing I have tomorrow off from work. I need that kind of […]

After reading Twilight by Meyer and enjoying it and then reading the three sequels and hating them, I was both intrigued by her novel for adults and at the same time convinced I should know better.I read the book with a bias, which was that this woman really cannot write very well, but can sometimes […]

Coming from a British South Asian background, the concept of beauty can often be confused and to my mind very limited. Beautiful is fair, beautiful is large eyes and small lips and long black hair. Anything else is flawed. Black cannot be beautiful, white is better.I’ve looked over this whole issue with distant disapproval until […]

I got home today to find that the computer had crashed again. Having no TV and the hubby being at work for the evning, I could not work out what to do with myself. After sulking for 20 minutes during which time even the kids got bored of me and wandered off, I decided to […]

After reading Twilight by Meyer and enjoying it and then reading the three sequels and hating them, I was both intrigued by her novel for adults and at the same time convinced I should know better.I read the book with a bias, which was that this woman really cannot write very well, but can sometimes […]

Coming from a British South Asian background, the concept of beauty can often be confused and to my mind very limited. Beautiful is fair, beautiful is large eyes and small lips and long black hair. Anything else is flawed. Black cannot be beautiful, white is better.I’ve looked over this whole issue with distant disapproval until […]

After reading Twilight by Meyer and enjoying it and then reading the three sequels and hating them, I was both intrigued by her novel for adults and at the same time convinced I should know better.I read the book with a bias, which was that this woman really cannot write very well, but can sometimes […]

I got home today to find that the computer had crashed again. Having no TV and the hubby being at work for the evning, I could not work out what to do with myself. After sulking for 20 minutes during which time even the kids got bored of me and wandered off, I decided to […]

I decided to wear something nice to work today and felt rather elegant in my plain purple abayah, the nice two-tone scarf Kooky gave me and some pink diamante bangles. It was only when it got to mid-day and I took my shoes off to make wudhu (ablutions for prayer) that I realised I was […]

I decided to wear something nice to work today and felt rather elegant in my plain purple abayah, the nice two-tone scarf Kooky gave me and some pink diamante bangles. It was only when it got to mid-day and I took my shoes off to make wudhu (ablutions for prayer) that I realised I was […]

No matter how many self-help books you read, how many times you are told and how much common-sense wisdom is apparent, there are some things that you just have to learnt the hard way. For me, some of these have included: Shut Up If in doubt, keep quiet. If the situation looks like it could […]

I decided to wear something nice to work today and felt rather elegant in my plain purple abayah, the nice two-tone scarf Kooky gave me and some pink diamante bangles. It was only when it got to mid-day and I took my shoes off to make wudhu (ablutions for prayer) that I realised I was […]