Reminiscing about childhood Easters

[Jeannine]

I was just watching the pea size hail pounding the top of my greenhouse and I started to think back about Easter  Sunday as a child

I got a new dress every Easter  for our Sunday out,  usually made of organdy it had a full gathered  skirt and puffed sleeves, petticoats underneath to make it stick out .I wore it with  new white buckskin shoes, white gloves , long white socks and a little handbag. My Mum used to knit me an angora short sleeved bolero for coming home after we had gone out for the day, just in case it got a little cool!!

We always went to the seaside and yes I paddled in my elastic ruched cossy.

We had fish and chips  and a jug of tea sitting on a rented deck chair on the beach and in the late afternoon we went into a posh buttery and had toasted teacakes.

I got an egg with my name on it with chocolates inside.

On Good Friday my Mum always served fish and on the Monday she cooked a turkey.

I seem to remember something about global warming, I am just wondering it I have mis heard it and it is actually global warning...as in get you sledge and Mukluks!!

What do you remember about Easters past.

XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

[kitten]

Wow Jeannine, that sounds like a great Easter!

I remember going to Sunday School, blowing the egg out of the shell & painting it, then rolling it down a hill along with all the other children.  Roast dinner, yum! Wanting to eat my eggs before dinner but being told i wasn't allowed lol! Eggs with chocolates/sweeties inside, not just stuck inside the box next to the egg!

I'm not sure i ever remember it snowing before though...
x

[Sinbad7]

Highlight of Easter was always going to the funfair at Scrubs Lane, on Easter Monday.  What a treat that was.

Sinbad

[honeybee]

Mum was not religious but we never ate meat on a good friday.

Brekkie was always beautifully boiled dippy eggs which were boiled in a food colouring, maybe green, purple or red, it was pot luck as to what colour you got (we all got different) and then each egg had a face drawn on it, usually something like an easter bunny with goofy teeth....lol,and that was served with hot cross buns.
Good Friday morning brekkie was my best brekkie of the year  ;D

Mum has been long gone, but her traditions still carry on :-*

22 year old son recieved his drawn on bunny egg with glee just the same as he did when he was three years old  ;D
18 year old stayed at his girlfriends, so he  missed out, but I text him to remind him of home comforts  ;)
He likes being a big boy and driving his car/ staying out with girlfriend ect but his reply made me realise he misses Mummies/Grandmas home comfort traditions too  ;)

[Just Vegging Out]

I can remember my Mum would get up early on Good Friday morning and walk to the Bakers for hot cross buns.  She would put them in the oven and so by the time we all got up they were warm for us to have.  Now we get Hot Cross Buns in the shops in January.  I used to go to Rathbone Market in Canning Town, there was always a big market at Easter.  Mum would buy fish for Good Friday from a lady named Kate who had a fish stall.  There used to be a man who took photos of the  kids and he had two little monkeys, so you would hold them and have your photo taken.  He used to feed them Polo mints to keep them quiet.  They used to be dressed in knitted dolls clothes.   All of my sisters and brother still have the old photos.  We always had flowers indoors, daffodils, and maybe catkins and palm and Dutch Iris.  Loads and loads of Easter Eggs, hidden away until Good Friday.  My mum would cook salt fish for Good Friday.  None of us went to church, but we all knew what the day was all about.  If later years we might have a turkey dinner, like a Christmas dinner.  And every year we would watch Jesus of Nazereth with Robert Powell on telly.  In primary school we would have an Easter Bonnet competition where all the kids would make a bonnet and the winner got an Easter Egg.  And the sweetshop up the road used to raffle a massive easter egg in a basket, covered in sugar roses.  I was always convinced I would win it and never did.   

[betula]

We always had hot x buns on Good Friday.I remember when I was very young having an egg cup like Big Ears out of Noddy with a hat that you could put over your boiled egg.I remember one year having an Easter egg sitting on the back of a beautiful swan box.I have never forgotten that.Never much money about but my mum always made Christmas and Easter so special.
When my own children were little I used to hide their eggs and they loved to search for them.

[manicscousers]

we used to get a new outfit including hat and gloves, all our white pumps were cleaned with whitening and put on the yard wall to dry  ;D
only time we ever got a chicken to eat  ;D