What is it about snow that makes people want to ‘announce’ it? Like a surprise visitor, welcome and bursting with the possibility of abundant gifts or a day off from the ordinary……
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I sit in the local cafe: my flat white just arrived and my 7-week old nursing peacefully as I try to peruse the morning papers. The kids are back at school and…
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This is not Naan Bread. This is straight up sisterhood. The sisterhood of the travelling flat bread. A story of a life lesson. A lesson rolled out in a circle of dough. One…
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I don’t know which one of the sisters first introduced the others to the poem game… but it was a keeper. It’s one of those real old school writing games and seriously…
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A Faraway Treehouse reTreat So my sisters and I had been wanting to go on vacation together for a while now. We should have probably done this while we were still all…
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My Dearest Ramadan, We waited for you for so long – an entire year almost. We counted the months, then weeks,then days until your arrival and yet, even with our constant anticipation,…
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And just like that over the weekend Mamanushka turned one year old! Since that first time Aiysha nonchalantly suggested we write a blog together without ever having met each other IRL (in…
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A memory comes to me quietly, like a small shy child slipping her hand in mine ~ My maternal grandmother. who is Nana to everyone: Nana to her daughters Nana to her…
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Growing up I had very few, ‘English Clothes’, as my sisters and I used to call them. Seems so funny to think about it now but back then I was totally happy…
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For the next post in our ongoing Things Parents Say series, author lawyer, charity activist, friend and all-round superwoman, Hina Belitz shares a deeply moving and poignant reflection on the death of…