Bolton Abbey

Arranging days out in my family is like pulling teeth!!! Getting everyone’s agreement, the planning, getting them together, basically if it isn’t a wedding, birthday, Eid or someone’s funeral then it’s hard to get everyone together regularly.

Which is why all my cousins and I wanted a nice day out with the family. As children we regularly used to go on outings during the summer with the whole family and I mean the WHOLE family. I have vivid memories of my trips to theme parks such as Lightwater Valley, Alton Towers and American Adventure to name but a few.

Therefore this April we (Tyagee's, Saeed Mamoo's and my lot) finally got our act together and off we went to Bolton Abbey, which is a beautiful place in Shipley, West Yorkshire. Theme parks were deemed too tiring for our ageing parents :)

The sun was shining, had a lovely picnic packed and surrounded by my family. I think I can surely say that everyone had a lovely day and I hope there are many more to come, inshAllah.

Easter is all sweets and no Jesus

Whilst working away, we somehow ended up talking about Easter. Someone commented on how the actual message of Easter had got lost along the way and had been replaced with chocolate as that was more profitable in the modern world. I guess all religions are having a hard time trying to put their message across and explain to people what they stand for.

P.S. Haven’t posted a joke in a while so here’s one that sort of links to this post…

There were two prawns, James and Christian, swimming along the bottom of the ocean. James accidentally rubs up against an old lantern and whoosh, a genie appears and grants James two wishes.

After a moment's thought James decides that he wants to becomes a shark so as to gain the respect of all the creatures of the sea. Whoosh, James becomes a shark and swims off.

Two weeks later James is upset. All of his old friends are now afraid of him and his life is miserable. He decides to use his second wish, and he wishes to be a prawn once again. Whoosh.... Now a prawn once more, James swims away to look for his mate Christian.

When he arrives at Christian's house he knocks on the door and shouts out for Christian. "Go away", says Christian, "you're a shark and you'll just eat me".

"No I won't", shouts James, "I'm a prawn again Christian".

:P

Blog anniversary

Woohoo! It’s my Blog’s 1st year anniversary!!! I kept a blog for a whole year. Ok, ok so maybe I didn’t update it as regularly as I liked but I still managed to keep it going. That counts for something, right?! :)