What time on Friday? Had he had lunch?

Ah the death of our lord and saviour jesus christ. Still brings a tear to my eye that not only was he was willing to die on the cross to give us all a day off work, he even rose again to give us another one

Praise the lord

Just a flaming drama queen/publicity whore in my book.

Yeah I hear he spent a lot of time hanging out with prostitutes. And all that water into wine, water-walking - what a showoff.

Maybe it ran in the family though. His mum never could prove who the father was...but the most likely culprit wasn't too shy either.

All done in the name of research apparently

Of course. I'm sure he's say he did not have any sexual relations with those women...

Yesterday I saw a special boat with a thingy for sucking up sand and it was called 'The Lewinsky'

Easter is Willy Wonka's Birthday. Not sure what a 'Jesus' is.

Did it also have a facility to mop up spillages from wayward seamen and a special slot for cigar butts...?

Ah, but the snag is there that I have no idea who Elvis is OR when he died

Not such a stupid question as others might think. Last year our kids were off for Good Friday and Easter Monday and then back to school for the remainder of that week and the next one, before finishing for the two week break. I remember because my brother had booked to fly out for his kid's Easter hols and they didn't quite coincide with ours so he had to pay to change his dates. I think this was because Easter was early last year (the long weekend fell on the 21st March) and in South Australia the academic year is divided into 4, 10 week terms and as the new school year only began in late January to finish again in March would, I can only imagine, have been deemed too soon. This year, with Easter falling later in April they finish on the Thursday before Good Friday and go straight into their 2 week break, same as the UK. Guess the Oz holidays always fluctuate bcause of the ever changing dates of Easter.

Hi Wendy,

We fly out on Friday 3rd April and arrive in Brisbane Sat 4th. Spending Easter with my brother & wife in Sunshine Coast and then down to the Gold Coast for a week. I found a lot of places were full up or really expensive. We have found a lovely apartment on the beach. We are validating, unfortunately. Are you guys doing the same?

Helena

What a load of Horlicks!

It's got nothing to do with the school holidays (that's just coincidence).

Easter, every year, is the same date in the UK as in Australia.

It's not a case of being too soon, it's a case of terms being 10 or 11 weeks and that's how the teachers set the course work, if they'd kept it with Easter, the kids wouldn't have had time to do the set work. If Easter were at it's latest date, the same problem would occur (except obviously the teachers would have to start another section of the curriculum for a week or so - wouldn't work).