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… the ghost of teabag past.

Can’t figure out how to get the price tag to stand up? Just stab a pepper! Problem solved. Brought to you by my local supermarket!

I use the expression, “It’ll all come out in the wash” quite often with my kids when explaining why I’m struggling to be sympathetic when one of them is catatonic with rage about the fact that one of the others … Continue reading →

It’s been a rollercoaster ride over the last few months, but I’m back, strange as ever, and these people just won’t stop growing up!

Joanna was poorly again this week. One night I was up four or five times with her. Her dad went in once too. It was not the best night. In the morning I said, “You didn’t sleep too well did … Continue reading →

One of the highlights of the holiday has been Andrew and Philip starting swimming lessons twice a week at a school not too far from our house. A good friend of theirs is in their group and despite their initial … Continue reading →

Apologies for my absence. I had some trouble uploading a post, got disheartened and it’s taken until now to get my act together again. I’ve also been busy… The boys have been off school for the last four weeks for … Continue reading →

We didn’t get as much as last year, but there was just enough snow for a snowman… the boys and Dad enjoyed playing… Joanna was much less impressed by the white stuff.

Andrew reading Enid Blyton on my Kindle while pretending to be Yoda at the Jedi Council.

Some days you just have to bake two carrot cakes and 50 chocolate cookies, you just have to.

We live on the 3rd floor of a apartment building. The lift is generally very reliable, and compared to many parts of the world we also have very a consistent electricity supply, for which we are extremely thankful. Unfortunately yesterday … Continue reading →

What is Joanna thinking? Comment with your suggestion… a virtual prize to the best one!

…Dad, that is. I’m so thankful for my gorgeous husband, and father of my children. When I asked the boys to tell me about their dad for a Father’s Day gift, this is what they came up with… Joanna was … Continue reading →

This is part of the view from our kitchen window at sunset. We’re up on the top floor and look across rooftops (hence the watertanks and satellite dishes). At the moment it is apricot season, grape season, watermelon season, peach … Continue reading →

On Easter Saturday we spent the day with three of my husband’s students, their wives and children. They took us for “picnic” lunch (picnic only in the sense that the wives had made and brought the food). We ate at … Continue reading →

You know your eldest is getting big when you pull a t-shirt off the drying rack thinking it is yours… and realise it is his! However, today he’s off school poorly, and they always somehow seem littler when they’re not … Continue reading →

Philip’s reading and writing is really coming on. He is however, learning to read in English and Arabic at the same time. He’s also very ambidextrous, at times writing in English with his right hand, and Arabic with his left…! … Continue reading →