We resurrected the kitchen walls by painting them, while gorging on Lindt eggs. Happy Easter everyone.

In France, I believe it is the stork that brings the eggs. Perhaps the bunnies find them and redistribute?

The stores have to find a way to increase sells to keep revenue up....Why not sell crap from every holiday to do it?

There are companies out there they rely almost entirely on 2 holidays to stay open, Christmas and Easter....

How about Halloween?

You are correct, I totally forgot about Halloween, same thing there, some companies only produce a produce for that one season or get almost all their sales during that month.

I've worked for a few seasonal companies who sell only briefly during certain holidays, and its crazy how much money they can bring in so quickly.

Last time I did the job in 2011, 320,000 in 4 weeks and that was just one of 100 some odd stores across the country.

That was a lot of gift baskets...lol

We've collected a few Easter traditions along the way from various places. We gather a few twigs to make an "Easter tree" on which we hang decorated blown eggs, German-style. There's an Easter-egg hunt in the back garden (for our eldest when he was younger, and now enthusiastically explained by him to the youngest, the eggs are delivered to the house by the Easter Bunny but distributed by groggy-eyed parents early in the morning so that the squirrels and raccoons don't eat them all in the middle of the night). They get a proper large Easter egg too - big Kinder eggs are available in the supermarkets hereabouts. General rule of chocolate-eating is that the kids get 20 minutes to stuff their faces after breakfast then anything left over gets put away for later. Roast leg of lamb (boned/rolled, stuffed with a leek and mushroom paste, glazed with a reduction of wine and redcurrant jelly - mmmmmmmmm) for a late lunch with extended family. A walk in the afternoon.

There was some sort of egg-rolling or egg-throwing thing going on at a local park. I don't get that - just seems wasteful. And as to actual presents at Easter, well that's just absurd. The youth of today, eh?

Easter??? When was this???

It was a nice long weekend to mark the arrival of spring that had several pub trips and a couple of nice brunches.

I topped it off with all you can eat Sushi last Sunday evening.

Given the atheist nature of people on this forum I thought you'd all be delighted that capitalism had come along and butchered the true meaning of the pagan festival.

Either don't bother or celebrate the true meaning. I don't really see a half way house of what is correct or over commercial in between. Chocolate eggs versus gifts.....who gives a monkeys? Neither are in the holy book.

Because it is the primary feast day of the Christian callendar (yes, easter trumps xmas) and marks the end of 40 days of lenten sacrifice.

Thats the religious context anyway.

On a more secular note its perhaps a celebration of the end of a long and moderately brutal winter.


Our Easter traditions stretch as far as decorating a couple of dozen eggs and then playing hide and seek with them. The kids have a blast, and thats reason enough for me.

Originally the eggs were cracked together to symbolically represent the cracking open of the tomb of Christ.
We always decorated and rolled hardboiled eggs down a hill (the stonier the better) at the Sunday school Easter picnic. We often ate the eggs afterwards too despite them often being dyed the most hideous colours by paint and marker pens seeping through the shell.

Apparently the bunny thing is to do with the pagan goddess Ostara (from which the word Easter is derived) who represented springtime - the springtime festivals featured symbols of fertility and the bunny was one of these symbols.

Combine the two and Cadbury's and voila a chocolate egg-laying bunny...

I thank you. One aims to please.