Today is April Fools Day, a time when we trditionally try to play jokes on people.

This morning David, a friend, drew my attention to a report in the local newspaper that we were looking at developing a theme park, Chavsville or Chavorama, in Medway. One of the star attractions would be driving a JCB into a bank window and nicking a cashpoint machine. Dave tells me he knew this was a joke – I’ll just have to believe him as I have no other reason to think otherwise!!

After speaking to Dave I opened today’s copy of Church Times to see on page 3 a proposed biblical style theme park, re-enacting stories like Jonah and the Big Fish and Jesus walking on water with a budget of £144 million. Another April Fools Joke I thought. It must be! Buth then I looked closer. The organisation is called Ark Alive, has a website and is even a registered charity. I hope this is a well planned hoax … or is it a sad reality!