Tuesday, 25 March 2008

I'm Dreaming of a White Easter!

As I write this, we are still very much focussed on Easter, and a very unusual Easter it has been too! For a start, this is the earliest Easter has fallen for 95 years, and of course, the weather has been somewhat unusual, compared to last year, when we were all going to church in tee shirts and shorts and worrying about the chocolate melting on all the easter eggs. Instead, we had the opposite extreme, namely our first "white Easter" since 1983.
Andrew and I spent Easter with my immediate family in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, where we enjoyed watching Disco, who is mum's black cat, fighting with the snow, and seeing Lucy, my 9 year old Niece, building a snow bunny, and a snow cave, before it all melted. We shared Easter Eggs (non chocolate ones aswell as chocolate ones), and we walked along the local railway cycle route, where we met a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel wearing a Barbie Pink coat to match that which her (we presume it was a girl dog!) mistress was wearing. We had a Sunday off church (this was advised by the family, after I managed to faint in the middle of dinner the previous night!). Due to our work commitments etc, we had had missed the Maundy Thursday re-enactment of the Last Supper and the traditional Good Friday service at our own church, but I, for one, made sure i packed a bible for our mini holiday, so i could remind myself of how Jesus gave his own life for all of us, and having gone through all that totally barbaric torture, he rose again from the dead!
Now we are back in Norwich, and we are both enjoying our last day off, before the reality of work hits us again. When the schools go back, i wonder what the weather will bring? Will it be like Easter 1978, which fell only three days later than this year, and resulted us walking to school for the start of the summer term in deep snow?
I have just used up the test film in the new camera that my lovely husband got me for christmas (yes, I still use film!) and I look forward to seeing the pictures of our White Easter!

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