The kids have been playing a nice little game with us, taking turns to throw up in the middle of the night (strip the bed, strip the child, bath it, find more bedding etc at 2 am). Although the older two’s stomachs seem to have settled down, the baby is still having his moments, so […]

These cards have a retro feel because of the colours used – yellow, greens, pinks and lots of brown as well as the prints on some of them.I was hoping to open my etsy shop this week in good time for Eid insh’Allah, so I am hoping to get some feedback from visitors regarding what […]

I am now on maternity leave from work and what a relief!  I have had so much on my mind that I was struggling to focus on work.  I finished my secondment with the 2012 Games team a week before my leave started (the team thought my project management skills were brilliant extending as they […]

I recently worked on a project where I had to do some research around litter and initiatives around the country to tackle the amount of litter people throw in the streets. It was an interesting project and I learned a lot, but one thing stood out – people throw litter in the streets but not […]

This morning the children woke to find this on the floor: We had fun experimenting with the effect of the “magic rainbow” on different things that the kids could find: My favourite was this:

These cards have a retro feel because of the colours used – yellow, greens, pinks and lots of brown as well as the prints on some of them.I was hoping to open my etsy shop this week in good time for Eid insh’Allah, so I am hoping to get some feedback from visitors regarding what […]

I tend to avoid the “Not In My Name/Death Of A Princess” type books which are generally about women who have been mistreated horribly by Muslim men, mainly for two reasons. The first is because it annoys the hell out of me when people read this kind of book and apply the nastiness of the […]

I was recently asked to do a review for Hotel Chocolat.  Although I tend to ignore anything even slightly Christmassy, I could not say no to free chocolate.  I’ve been given Hotel Chocolat Batons Selection before for Eid by my sisters and really, really enjoyed them.  In fact the last time I went shopping with […]

These cards have a retro feel because of the colours used – yellow, greens, pinks and lots of brown as well as the prints on some of them.I was hoping to open my etsy shop this week in good time for Eid insh’Allah, so I am hoping to get some feedback from visitors regarding what […]

I and Little Lady sneaked out early on the weekend whilst the other children and their gran were still in bed. I thought it would be nice to have some for just us two and to have breakfast together. We headed into town and did some chores (bank, library) and then decided to do some […]

These cards have a retro feel because of the colours used – yellow, greens, pinks and lots of brown as well as the prints on some of them.I was hoping to open my etsy shop this week in good time for Eid insh’Allah, so I am hoping to get some feedback from visitors regarding what […]

These cards have a retro feel because of the colours used – yellow, greens, pinks and lots of brown as well as the prints on some of them.I was hoping to open my etsy shop this week in good time for Eid insh’Allah, so I am hoping to get some feedback from visitors regarding what […]

These cards have a retro feel because of the colours used – yellow, greens, pinks and lots of brown as well as the prints on some of them.I was hoping to open my etsy shop this week in good time for Eid insh’Allah, so I am hoping to get some feedback from visitors regarding what […]

We are not big on celebrating birthdays, but I still like to give my kids something nice.This year I made Little Lady a rainbow necklace out of glass crystals. I also picked up this embroidery haul from a charity shop for £1 and sashed it in a pretty bag: She was pretty please with her […]