The night before???

So it has been confirmed. Ramadan starts on Wednesday night/ Thursday. I had my pizza tonight because I’d ordered it before Ahmad messaged me and I think it actually turned out for the best, you know what it’s like that day after you eat loads, you make your stomach swell and feel hungry all day the next day. So tomorrow I’m going to drink lots of water and try not to over eat and I’ll set an alarm for 4:30am to have my last food for Thursday. I do appreciate that I don’t have to get up and go to the mosque to pray, although I might like to see what that is actually like.

I’ve looked at the times on my “my mosque” app and sunrise it at 4:55 at the moment and sunset at 9:02 - I’m in Hull so if you’re further south you get to fast for less time. Sunrise and sunset move by about 2 minutes every day, so each day my time for eating gets 4 minutes longer, you might not think that’s long but I will be sat staring at a bottle of water for the last 10 minutes

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