A happy and peaceful Eid The month long fasting period is over and its time to celebrate Eid. Fasting for a whole month without water and carrying on with ones work and routine is not easy. Hot weather makes fasting that much more harder and I feel bad for the ones fasting in the…
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About time I am so glad that France is the first developed country to tackle the issue of food wastage and will be passing a law that supermarkets will be banned from throwing or destroying food that is still edible. It is believed that in France about 7.1 million tonnes of food…
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Little Joys Every time I log off from my hotmail account, the MSN new page appears. Its an interesting mixture of news, quirky happenings, lifestyle, finance, home etc. A whole package to take care of what interests you. Yesterday I read an article on what things kids of these days miss out on…
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32nd anniversary ‘The bonds of matrimony are like other bonds – they mature slowly’. Peter DeVries On Friday hubby and I celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary. While you read this, you may want to ask us, how did you celebrate? Where did you go? What present did you get? etc etc.…
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Blogging block??? All writers, bloggers experience a block occasionally. Whenever I have a bloggers block, I just find it difficult to even write one meaningful sentence. Yet I know I need to get the recipe on the blog to keep my followers interested. You may say but there are so many things…
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beat the heat Extreme weather is some what becoming a norm in the present time. 6 feet of snow in autumn, torrential rains accompanied by landslides and floods, high temperatures, cold gusty winds, cold spells. All this is happening due to pollution, less trees, concrete jungles, thinning ozone layer and so many other…
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Recipe: Mushrooms On Toast Mushrooms On Toast is an easy, delicious and healthy breakfast, light lunch or dinner option. Easy to make, hubby and I love to have it with our soup or with some salad as a healthy and filling meal. Type Of Bread The base for mushrooms on toast is the bread. Here…
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Recipe: Cucumber Raita Cucumber Raita is a filling, delicious, refreshing, cooling and quick to make side dish. Enjoy it on its own as a summer treat or serve with some curry, rice, biryani, pulao, etc. Whenever we invite guests over for a meal, either raita or chaas is always on the menu. An excellent way…
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Do you like reading true stories? Every time we have guests who come to stay with us, they tend to leave something or the other behind for us besides the presents they may have brought for us. I have loads of half used shampoo and hair conditioner bottles, some shower gels, bath towels, slippers, magazines…
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EVENT: BLOGGING MARATHON #88 THEME: REDO OLD POSTS – WEEK 4 – DAY 1 24/05/2018 This is updated post… its not Eid as yet this year but will be arriving in 3 weeks time. I must also mention that security has much improved now in Mombasa but tourism is not what it was some years…