[NormandyMary]

I used to love Easter when I was young. It was a great time food-wise in our house. Always trifle, always Simnel cake, huge dinner on the Sunday with the family in the dining room and usually Turkey to eat plus a pudding left over from Christmas.
Today, we are having a small turkey, I bought 2 in December, we shall have all the trimmings, but no sprouts obviously. Im thinking of making a lemon mousse for pudding, Ive been dying to make one for ages so if I can get my chores done in time this morning, Ill have a go We wont eat until tonight, so there should be time for it to set.
How are you all celebrating today?

[Bionic]

Mary, we are having a Turkey too but I am going to make it as diet friendly as I can. Dessert will be baked apple.
 
Happy easter to you
Sally

[Victorian Farmer]

Happy Easter every one of you ,and you marry have a nice day lots of Easter services on to day all the best on this day .

[Mammyshaz]

  Happy Easter everybody 

The boys did their egg hunt early this morning so I sneaked an extra couple of hours sleep afterwards.
Off visiting parents and siblings, nephews and nieces today then a Sunday dinner, Yorkshire puds etc followed by trifle ( usually early evening ).

[Blinkers]

HAPPY EASTER to you all too 
Just finished brunch.....home produced sausages, home produced and cured bacon, free range eggs from own hens, plus fried bread, fried mushrooms, and tomato......................how healthy is all that    - deliciously healthy 
Got .......yep.....home reared Turkey for Dinner later on 

[Hassle]

Happy Easter.... Just watching the home made pork joint rest    and forks at the ready

[plumseverywhere]

With the exception of an easter egg hunt in the garden, just a normal day today here  I've had the children this morning, they're with their dad this afternoon - loads of ironing to catch up on and I've even cleaned my windows 

[Fleecewife]

I'm a cynic I know.       Christmas I understand - a baby was born.  But Easter?  Why are we feasting when someone was nailed by his hands and feet to a cross and left to die slowly  ? 
 
 I'm not into the religious aspects of feast days, or of anything, so it's just a holiday for me - except I'm on holiday all the time      We have sunshine today and it's forecast to be wall-to-wall  here tomorrow. That's enough for me and the possibility of our first lambs.

[Tala Orchard]

Happy Easter one and all. 

Nothing special for us today as it still means feeding livestock, docking tails, collecting eggs etc,

My special days are when I see a new lamb born, piglets or watching new live grow in our fields or poly-tunnel the marvel of nature never ceases to surprise me.

What ever you believe may you enjoy the Easter Holiday and may your God go with you.

Tala

[happygolucky]

Not much different today either but the sun and cold certainly have that easter feel. As a young mum I remember the trips out and getting the girls wrapped up then it becomming too hot or too cold, then home for a nice roast and then to sleep with the sun comming through the window and some film or other on the TV and chocolate fest. We also did a lot of caravaning so often that was our first trip out.
Today, I was greated buy a cup of tea and my husband developing Turrets as he watched the chickens trample all over "his" bulbs""
 
Happy Easter!!

[suziequeue]

Happy Easter everyone. For me this festival is about celbrating spring what with it being the first Sunday after the first full moon after the March equinox - so for me it's all about the day length and the lunar calendar and all the natural things.


Today we have carried on as normal - did a bit of tidying up around the place, fixed up the chicken huts ready for summer hatching (fingers crossed). We decided to remove the fencing around the chicken pen and let them free range now - so - goodbye and snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils that we may have. They have spent the morning in the hedge!


We are having slow cooked shoulder of lamb with roast potatoes, red cabbage and peas.

[deepinthewoods]

its actually the feast of ishtar,  nothing to do with christianity until it was bastardized by the roman emporer constantine.

the symbols of the egg, and rabbit, are pagan symbols of fertility. nothing to do with  some radical terrorist being nailed to a stake

[suziequeue]

My understanding was that alot of Christian festivals tie in with old Pagan festivals in order to make it more palatable to the populace in the days when Christianity was being pushed out to the masses

[deepinthewoods]

yes exactly. 

[Hassle]

Managed to get the spring tine out and hook it up to the tractor and did the pig ground... lets hope the ground keeps drying