Project 365 – Days 347 to 365

Well another year of Project 365 completed. Bumper 3 week of pics for you but nothing particularly exciting…..Thinking to change over to Project 52 next year and just do 1 picture a week! Will see, said that last year and ended up doing 365 again!   Day 347 – Sunday 13th December  Popped into the

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Dolphin Encounter at Dolphin Bay Atlantis

One of the things we just had to do while in Dubai was going to Atlantis for the dolphin experience at their dolphin bay. This is one experience from my post 6 Must Do Things in Dubai with Children that needed a post of its own! I would have loved to swim with them but

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Saturday Spotlight: Olive Tree Study

Please do introduce yourself.  Assalamu alaikum. My name is Tahera Akther. I am a mother of four children mashallah aged between 2 to 14 yeas of age. Other then being a busy mum, I am involved in a few projects that I am leading. I will go through them briefly. Firstly, I am the founder,

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Friday Wisdom: Be Kind to Animals

The importance of being kind to animals is made clear in Islam. We are a family of animal lovers. Well perhaps not my hubby; it took me 7 years to convince him to let me have a cat and even then he only agreed as we spotted a mouse in the house. He once said

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Hijab Series: Hijab in the Workplace

For most of my journey as a muslimah who wears hijab, I have been either a student or a stay-home mum. Even when I worked from home, running a playgroup, and offering tuition to students, hijab was never an issue. It was something I believed in, something that was a part of me. Even though

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