Against all expectations my tomatoes are turning red(dish). Mostly every year they turn green and then the plant dies or the slugs eat them. My mum didn’t expect them to turn red either so reserved all of the green ones in advance to freeze and use in her delicious veg curries. Looks like I’ll have […]

I took my two boys to the Street Eats event organised by Halal Gems last weekend.  We only stayed for about two hours, so Harlequin Sister suggested I make the most of the afternoon and take them to the British Museum.  I haven’t been since Little Lady was born, although the older children have been with their school. After […]

My oldest three aged 16, 14 and 12 have been keeping all of the fasts with us this Ramadan. Little Lady has been since the last two or three years, Little Man did last year and Gorgeous wants to try this year.  They seem to be coping well and being semi-sensible about it most of […]

My better half has been after a fish tank for ages. Seeing as he doesn’t ask for much and you don’t have to follow them with a pooper-scooper I didn’t think that was a bad idea. So last summer he picked up this dusty old thing from a market for a few pounds. It sat […]

I picked this book up at a summer boot fair and saved it for my winter stash when all I want to do is curl up in bed and read. So it being winter and grey and wet outside I thought this was as good a time as any to give it a try.The book […]

These are afew cards I had that were not quite finished. If I get stuck with a card, I put it aside for another time. Then when I have a few, I attack the pile with a fresh perspective. Sometimes this works, other times the results are questionable.Of the ones below, I like the first […]

I was saying to my husband a few days before Eid, how sad I was that we were having such a quiet Eid this year.  Literally just the household and no on else.  The rest of my family decided to celebrate Eid a day later or had other plans. People are often so critical about […]

This little one has been coveting the hoodie his older brother got from his Nan for his birthday since the minute he laid eyes on it. Both of my boys are clothes horses and particularly like their warm cosy hoodies. I finally got Little Man to take off the hoodie at bedtime and change into […]

Alhamdulillah I had a lovely Sunday morning spent at Barleylands Farm market in Essex. We go there a couple of Sundays’s a year and it is a great chance to give your lungs a treat and get in touch with nature. Oh, and to shop for next to nothing. I bought myself lots of plants, […]

We have been overdosing on fruit recently in an attempt to keep the kids eating habits healthy and control my own weight. It seems the years of eating too many burgers, chips and too much chocolate are starting to catch up and I am trying to cut down on my sugar intake to start with.These […]

This is my fruit-tree collection. I have been sticking fruit stones into pots on my window-sill not really thinking they would grow. So far I have an avocado plant and a lychee which is very pretty. My pride and joy though is my little ajwa plant. Ajwa is a very special kind of date and […]

I got home from work yesterday to receive a phone call from my mum telling me that one of the elders of our community had passed away. As I, my mother-in-law and my husband met with my mum to head to see the man’s family, I reflected on the fact that this felt like the […]

This was what I wear for the second day of Eid, brought back from Pakistan by my mum earlier this year.  I can’t tell you how comfortable this was.  I mixed up bangles I already had to make a matching set. I’m a bit annoyed I never got round to take picture of the kids […]

I thought I would post this as it is my favourite day and our Sabbath – Friday (or Jummah in the Muslim week). This is our day of community and coming together for prayer. My dad used to describe it as a mini-Eid, with its sunnan of bathing, applying perfume, wearing your best clothes and […]