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Continue reading →: What is happening in Lancashire.
Monday 25th May 2026 and there is a lot of events going on and around Lancashire. Preston surely has enough evets to attend. On Saturday just in Preston moor park had preston Caribbean festival and whilst preston city centre had that parade for their new mayor. However upcoming events in…
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Continue reading →: A Blackburn park has new playground equipments.
A Blackburn park has just updated its playground area with new and exciting rides. Roe lee park in Blackburn has just been updated with some more fun playground rides. From fun and active rides to an educational board for children to show how they feel and learn key words. The…
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Continue reading →: A clothing and shoes donation container has been used for fly tipping.
A clothing and shoes donation container has been used for fly tipping. A clothes and shoes donation container has again been fly tipped with old house hold items and rubbish. Photo graph by Alina Shaukat The clothes and shoes donation container in Douglas place was used as a fly tipping…
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Continue reading →: Good friday
Good afternoon Fellow readers, I apologise for not writing weekly articles on here as i should more to come more book reviews, movie and TV show reviews and fashion reviews. Although fashion reviews and interviews will be done on my new and second website fashionandfriends42.wrodpress.com. Today is good Friday where…
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Continue reading →: Books to read on International women’s day 2026
Happy international women’s day everyone, as a book lover, author and writer i thought share some of my favourite female authors who saved me during bullying in school and female authors i started reading as an adult. 1.) Dorothy Whipple – high wages. It is about women’s need and rights…
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Continue reading →: Avenham park.
(credited by Alina Shaukat) Nature and animals have always been the best kind of therapy for us, whether you had along,stressful day at work or school, or out on a date or perhaps to hang around with your mates. Avenham park just a walk away from Preston’s high street Fishergate…
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Continue reading →: The longest yarn – Britain at war now in Blackburn cathedral.
Mannequin in a war time uniform to represent women going to work. (credited by Alina shaukat). Recently since the war memorial and celebrating veterans, Blackburn cathedral has opened it’s doors to a war time exhibition all knitted dolls and scenes of world war 1 and 2 recreated through knitting and…
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Continue reading →: Kanga my best friend and also how she resembles my mother.
(photo credited by Image Contributor Philip Ide/Shutterstock) Kanga my best friend and also how she resembles my mother Most of my articles were recently about mourning the death of a loved one, me mentioning about my mother and then the death of my truest bestie best friend the late lady…
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Continue reading →: Happy new year 2026 and First book review of 2026 Adam power’s the Princess Diana conspiracy the evidence of murder and Jeffery Archer Next in line.
By Alina Shaukat (Lin zainab). Happy new year 2026 everyone to my fellow butterfly readers, i haven’t done most of these for along time i’ve been attending my first fashion show well with a folklore show, a new culture i learned, a new language. Also with losi g my mother…
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