Food for the soul. All the world in one building, spilling out of the doors. Beautiful khutbah too. Cambridge Central Mosque, good Jummah. So glad to have made the journey. First return to the city in over twenty years. Beautiful architecture. Wonderful atmosphere. The people of this locality are very fortunate. Of course, my beloved …
The time to test the skills you learnt on 5-minute crafts is not on Mother’s Day, while making your mum breakfast in bed. Never mind, you know dad will clean up the mess.
My wife and I have never owned a flagship smartphone — not new, anyway. We’ve always had budget handsets, costing just a few pounds a months. The closest I’ve come is a Galaxy S8, just as the S20 was hitting the shelves. A fine phone, regardless. But when my beloved started looking for a new …
Spring is the best time for finding faith, for this is when we see the hibernating winter plants return to life right before our eyes, synthesizing cursive leaves from nothing but air, water and sunlight. If that doesn’t stir your soul, nothing will.
Five minutes from home, we walk along the valley. I always say, “It’s like being in the countryside.” To which my beloved naturally laughs, “We are in the countryside, you fool!” Which of course is true. Though we life in town, we’re on the very edge of it. Open countryside is always in easy reach …
Our lad was right. As he headed out of the door for a weekend away, he laughed, “Dad doesn’t eat anything when he’s on his own.” I told him that this time would be different, pointing out that his mum had left me food in the fridge. I won’t starve, I insisted. But he was …
Where is home? If people ask me where I am from, I will invariably respond, Hull, despite having not lived there for twenty-five years. By now, I have lived the greater part of my life elsewhere, but it was in its proximity that I was born and raised. In our mind’s eye, it becomes home …
Unfortunately, there’s nothing new about landlords not taking the problem of damp and mould seriously. In fact, the problem is widespread. In the early 2000s, we rented a flat from a housing association in west London. It was a tiny one-bedroom flat — one of several located in the roof of a converted old Victorian …
I’ve been feeling very unwell for weeks… nearly permanent nausea, aches, paresthesia, numbness, dizziness, shortness of breath… but funnily enough, I’ve just had a thought… kept awake by a superstrength coffee made for me yesterday afternoon… perhaps that’s all that’s wrong with me. My coffee intake! Maybe I’ll try cutting down.
Wonderful light across the valley this evening.
