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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And The Small Things In Between Were you able to watch Monday’s Solar Eclipse? We had a cloudy overcast day here in our part of the UK, so we missed witnessing this…
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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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After the success of our last gardening related post, A Foolproof Guide to Growing an Absolutely Glorious Container Garden, many of you wrote to us to ask about a companion guide which…
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Our good friend Fareena Alam, lives in a charming London flat (an apartment to the North Americans amongst us) with her husband and six-year old son. Here she tells us how one…
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It begins two weeks before, innocently, on a weekend morning after perusing the news. Oooh Bachas, listen, there is a Supermoon coming week after next! We need to watch out for…
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It’s not really the ‘extra’ hour of sleep we supposedly gain because, as we all know, young children don’t get this memo and wake up at exactly the same time they always…
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According to where you live, either yesterday or today heralded the first of Muharram and with it, the beginning of the new Islamic year! I don’t know about you, but I am…
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Exactly eight years ago I moved from England to the USA. It was around this time of the year, I was getting acquainted with the nature of American politics, (remember Sarah Palin?…
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The Tree That Cried And The Man Who Hugged It I love to make the stories of the prophets real for my kids. I have written in detail about it here, and…