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Hi everyone just like to wish you all
A VERY HAPPY EASTER
       FROM rOSEBUD

I would like to second that! Have a happy and safe Easter one and all!

Everyone have a super holiday, hope the weather is kind to us all wherever we may be.  And here's to scoffing far to much chocolate and getting headaches and sugar shock!

;D

Everyone overthere,have a nice and cosy easter holidays,i am already on friday relieved from work,so ill have a long weekend ahead.  

I am afraid that apart from the religious side and the weekend off Easter doesnt mean much to me.  It doesnt get 'celebrated' in our house, not like christmas.

The whole thing of easter eggs etc is a childrens thing - all adults here though. sorry  :-[

Cor what a bore! Bah and humbug!  Even as a big old grown up like I am my mum still buys me an easter gift and a little egg, and we will have soft boiled goose eggs (if I can get 'em) for our brekky on Easter Sunday, and we are having the family over for a lovely Easter Sunday lunch.

We are not religious at all, so that side of things means nothing to us, but it is still a time for us to get together, have some quality family time, and scoff chocolate, you are never too old for chocolate!  Does this make me a child, hey, I don't mind, don't wanna get old anyhows!

How sad for you Richard..... :-\.

.......you only get one life......

.......sad not to enjoy it whenever possible..... ::)

...I am 36...and will have a really good Easter....and I hope everyone else does too... ;D ;D

Love to enjoy a proper easter like you describe, just I'd do it on my own as the family wouldnt join in. I'd even have to buy my own easter eggs.

I KNOW it sounds sad, but i prefer to spend time on some big project in the garden or go out somewhere.

Is weird really, not kiddie peeps at all but really can understand how all of you with kiddies work and I take my hat off to you.


Sorry I can't join in but have loads of fun. all of you!   :D

I am rushing around getting ready for our Grand Egg painting competition on Good Friday afternoon.  So far at least 17 people are coming.  Mostly grown ups, sit in our dining room, listening to music and painting away. It is a lot of fun with lots of laughter and joking. there are some wild and wonderful ideas.  We have hard boiled eggs, paints and lots of craft resources

This year guess what I am doing - a sunflower! That will be with the help of paint, plastercene and tissue paper and a long pipe cleaner - have already worked it out in my head.  We have three prizes - a large choc egg, for 1st prize, a smaller one, for highly commended, and a little consolation prize, for the worst one, or as we call it in the North East, the Booby Prize.  I usually get that one as I am so busy running around after everyone.

Then its coffee/tea and hot cross buns and a bit of a high tea.  We have a pub type quiz, and then my brother who is a teacher comes to Judge them.  He takes it very seriously but makes everyone laugh with his witty comments - it is a fabulous day!  I know it is not very religious, but it is a very happy gathering.  Probably the nearest any of the adults get to doing anything artistic for the whole year.

Our children, 29 and 26 still get a chocolate egg, and my husband even buys me one.  I so wish you could come Richard.  Will try to show the winner and my effort on Good Friday.

Hope everyone has a lovely Easter!   :) busy_lizzie

Hey you guys, just reminded me!  Remember now, we had quite large gardie when I was dustbin lid and now remember how father used to hide all easter eggies in gardie for us both to find!  Took ages and ages but was such fun.

Thank you all for making me remember!  :D :D :D

I love Easter - we have a massive mini-egg hunt in the grounds of our church followed by an egg and spoon race around the grounds after - spent ages painting mad eggs with the kids last week to use in the race - you wouldn't believe how competitive the clergy can be!!!
Followed by big lamb dinner and a wander along the beach with the dog and the family (and a black plastic bag for seaweed of course!)

QuoteLove to enjoy a proper easter like you describe, just I'd do it on my own as the family wouldnt join in. I'd even have to buy my own easter eggs.

...oh cheer up for goodness sake  ::), life is what YOU make it....

;D  ;D  ;D

pm me your address and I will stick a cream egg in the post  ;D

Awww come on, spare a thought for all the poor b****rs who have to work over Easter. :'( :( :'( Have Good Friday and Saturday off then back to work for Sunday.  Will think of you all tucking into your Roast Lamb mmmmm mint sauce even more mmmmmm and all those veggies.   Ill have lunch in work and come home switch on tele and stuff my gob with as much choccy eggs as I can without being sick :P. Happy Easter to you all.

Happy Easter Everyone!
Sympathies for the people that have to work.
Nothing planned at the moment, apart from a week off work and general do-nothingness, (apart from watering the plants that is).
We will probably go to the in-laws at some point for a roast dinner though  ;D :P

Great reading all about your various activities over Easter.  Makes me wish I and my children were young again (happy days :D)   Took me back to lovely memories when I was a kid and I spent one Easter with my cousins at their gran and grandad's place in Tiverton.  I remember gran serving up  beautifully decorated eggs on Easter Day and trying to crack them open, only to realise that they had played a trick on us kids by serving up solid fake eggs ;D  Needless to say, they gave us real ones afterwards.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.  I for one will probably break all my good resolutions and devour loads of chocolate :)  Never mind, all the gardening ahead will help me shift those unwanted calories.

Well my 'kiddies' are 31, 25 and 21 but they still come to see their Mum and Dad on Easter Sunday to get their pressies and choccy eggs. ::)

We even hard boil hens eggs, decorate them and then spend a hiarious 1/2 hour rolling them down hills to see who's breaks first! ;D

Then it's back here to scoff a big lunch and sit and watch a video and munch our choccy  8)

I'm not at all religious but any excuse for having the family round and stuffing our faces. Wouldn't miss it!

Easter Monday usually spent having a long-lie and trying to recover from a massive overdose of chocolate  :-[

Eileen.

I worry that there is little pattern to modern life anymore.  In the 'old' days when everyone went to church/synagogue/temple etc. as a form of social requirement rather than religious belief, lives and years were measured by red letter days, saints days, festivals whatever.  Ways of marking the year I think are vital otherwise days, weeks and months can meld into one long drudge for many people.  There doesn't seem to be non-religious equivalents by which people can mark the year.  Plotters and gardeners are luckier than most I think - first sowing, first planting, first harvest.  Perhaps we should think up some 'festivals' for the non-religious - First Cuckoo of Spring Festival perhaps!