It's been a very long time since I wrote on my website but if anything was going to rekindle it, it's gonna be my new baby, Falasteen on Film. A project close to my heart, brining Palestinian cinema (& beyond) to Brum...

We were lucky enough to stay at Grace and Savour in Spring last year; it happened to be right after our twelve year wedding anniversary, which was such a wonderful alignment because we had spent our ten year anniversary in the first lockdown! Phew! What a time eh! So yes, it’s been a year in the making for this blog but again in perfect alignment, it’s been a year since they opened and they have just been awarded one Michelin star!

Last summer, when it was hot all over Europe…my friend Simona finally got to wed her childhood sweetheart in the most spectacular wedding at Villa Zagara Sorrento.
We’ve been to Naples and Ischia before but never to Sorrento.

I am an immigrant. I am a first generation immigrant. I wasn’t born here. I remember from such an early age, I held onto my British passport with such ferocity if anyone dared question whether I belong here or not, I could retort “I’ve always had a British passport”

A fun half term or weekend activity of using natural dyeing from petals…

he crunch of gravel under the car marked that we had arrived. We slowed and stared at the view of the lake as we pulled into a parking space.

{ I have been thinking a lot about language. The words we choose. The words we don’t know. What we read and what is shoved down our throats.  I have been thinking about how language serves us? How do the words we use empower us? And how words fail us when we don’t know how to name feelings or thoughts or actions, leaving us feeling powerless. }

7 things we are most excited about seeing and doing at BlueDot ! 

Barcelona with toddlers….the good, the great and the tricky!

Travelling with children can be daunting! Will they cry and want to run around and generally cause chaos?…

It was my first proper time to Cornwall and I had already heard and seen so much loveliness about Watergate Bay, so no pressure but it had a lot to live up to!!…

Becoming a mama has always felt as though I have been split apart; momentarily watching myself from above, an out of body experience