Happy Easter!

Ahh! It ways to dye the eggs! If you put some petals onto an egg, then cover egg in layers of onion skins or tights, next wrap newspaper round the egg & tie with string then boil. When you remove all wrappings you will have an egg with flower petal patterns and the shell coloured by onion skins/tights!

On a Ramblers' holiday in Spain, I spent Good Friday at a (very comfortable) hotel that was part of the monastery of Guadaloupe. At dinner we overdosed on fish! I seem to remember fish soup; eggs were stuffed with fish; there was salt cod for main course. I never wanted to see salt cod again and I never have. After dinner we went out and watched a statue of the Virgin being paraded round the town, accompanied by a small band which struck up cheerful tunes seemingly randomly, though there may have been some reason behind it. As the procession passed, householders put white lace cloths over their balconies and after it had gone, they took them in again, presumably to be folded up and kept for the next occasion. The madonna paraded was not the 'black madonna' statue which is kept in the monastery under very secure conditions.

Thanks Penstemmon. I have learnt something this Easter !

At one time Hot Cross Buns were only available on Good Friday, and we had to get up early and queue at the BAKERS in order to get our supply, when they were eaten really fresh and hot with oodles of butter. That was the only time hot cross buns were eaten.

Happy Oestre, everyone.

Tried some Waitrose hot cross buns. Disappointing. Maybe I'll make some at DD's tomorrow.

Happy Oestre Bags! (Should that have been a couple of weeks ago? Equinox?)

Happy Easter all.
Dismal weather here detracts from any festive spirit. Better curl up with chocolate, buns and Poldark

Happy Easter everyone

Fish on Good Friday - as far back as I remember
(And most Fridays)
M&S hot X buns
Lamb tomorrow.
I used to make a simnel cake but newer family members don't like marzipan, so may try making a carrot cake instead.

DM used to make us all coloured soft boiled eggs on Easter Sunday morning for breakfast; she put cochineal in one pan and a different food colouring in another pan.

Well, it seems that most peole have fish on Good Friday, but we never have!It was always fish or cheese pie on Fridays at school........ But in the holidays it never applied in our house.Naughty us.
never had Simnel cake either, but hot cross buns, always.On Easter Sunday it would be any roast dinner, not just lamb. having a turkey crown and a ham this year.

Just brought some daffodils in from the garden for the table, and they smell marvellous. I planted the bulbs last Autumn, Jack The Lad narcissus, they are double flowered and just gorgeous. if you buy a bunch somewhere they never seem to have a scent.

DGD aged 5 was the only child in her class to

sorry message got sent as I said DGD was the only child in her class to know why we have hot cross buns . In Scotland when I was a child we always rolled our eggs on Easter Sunday. We used candles to make a decoration then boiled them with onion skins.

No idea, nfk! All I know is that that's where the name Easter comes from and I prefer the old pre-Christian form. When I wish people a happy oestre I mean have a nice spring and if you're celebrating anything special, especially that

Have coloured a few eggs (boiled them wrapped in onion skins with leaves to create a fossil look! Also coloured some with food dye and then rubbed with oil for shine) Will have those for breakfast tomorrow with date rings. All symbolising 'new life' for spring /Easter. A simnel cake and some m'amoul are also done for later in the day! Easter was pretty much an equal festival in our household when I was a child..a mix of a mum from the North East and a dad from the Middle East!

Always fish on Good Friday and we were not a religious family, and we always had a new cotton frock, new Clarks crepe soled sandals and a home knitted cardigan to match the frock. Was it warmer then!!!
Easter Eggs on Easter Sunday.

Happy Easter

I love the old Easter traditions and can't wait for the DGSs to be old enough to help colour eggs, etc. I'm an old traditionalist, and I have to say it grated on me yesterday when the Radio 2 presenters kept wishing us all a Happy Good Friday.

Happy Oestre, bags!

Ooh, someone else who listens to Radio 2!
So many on here seem to be R4 addicts...

(or afficionados)

Ah well, I do switch to Radio 4 for part of the weekend (Question Time, Any Answers, Desert Island Discs and - for my sins - the Archers Omnibus). The rest of the time it's Radio 2 all the way in this house.

Any Questions, I mean, not the TV programme!

I don't usually bother with the radio at all at the weekend except in the car. Haven't listened to the Archers for decades - I'm stuck in the days of Walter Gabriel I'm afraid!

Probably very wise, Ana . We usually have it on while we plough through the Sunday paper and only pay attention when there's a bit of shouting going on. Then we both look up and expect the other to know what's going on .

I've never eaten meat on Good Friday to my knowledge. We had a delicious fish meal thanks to M and S plus potato dauphinois and mixed veg yesterday, delicious. Followed by lemon tart and blackberries.

I like following family traditions.

The M and S luxury hot cross buns are delicious. They are bound to be selling them off after the weekend.