and finally……

we are here….it’s taken us a long time..but at last we are in  Algiers

Alhamdulillah Allah is indeed most merciful and had bless our moderate impatience with the Hijrah that we’ve been longing for…

We arrived two weeks ago, and are staying with my in-laws until we find something a little bit more permanent for ourselves, the living arrangements are a bit challenging and take an im-moderate amount of patience to deal with sometimes but the important thing is that we are finally able to start again and give our children the kind of freedom that they weren’t able to have back in the UK.

We’re cut off without landline or internet connection where we are…which hopefully will be sorted when we move somewhere more permanent, we jokingly refer to the place where my in-laws live as the black hole of Algiers..

I’m slowly but surely beginning to catch up with sisters I haven’t seen for far too long, and just generally adjusting to a new life full of new possibilities insha’allah..we’re taking lots of pictures which we’ll try and upload sometime, and dh and boys are spending plenty of time in the masjid nasha’allah…I can’t tell you  how nice it is to hear the adhan five times a day, and to see so many borthers in Qamees and sisters in Jilbabs..there is of course the same kind of lean towards fashion and commercialism that reigns supreme in the west..but this time round theres something that just feels so right about being here…this time round it feels like home