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Welcome to our Easter ideas for 2007.
Easter is a special time of year when we remember events of over 2000 years
ago, eat chocolate & candy and get an extra holiday!
Not only that, but on the Christian calendar it represents so much more - of
remembering that Christ died and rose again to set us free.
If you're wondering how the English celebrate Easter and why, read on:-
Easter In England - A Family Affair
By Elaine Currie
If you are a visitor to England at Easter, you would be forgiven for thinking
that the English people have nothing much in the way of Easter traditions
apart from exchanging chocolate eggs. This is because the nature of Easter
celebrations is low-key and private; Easter is a time for sober worship and
quiet family gatherings without the razzmatazz and hectic atmosphere that
accompanies Christmas. Even the exchange of Easter greetings cards tends
to be confined to close friends and family.
After the brief bright interlude of Christmas, we sink back into our torpor and
endure the dull cold winter months until our first spring bank holiday arrives
and gives us a reason to come wide awake. In England we greet Easter with
all the relief of dusty travellers arriving at an oasis in a desert. Our desert
might be grey and damp instead of sun-baked but we find the green oasis
with its promise of spring and rebirth equally as welcome.
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar but in the
multicultural society of England it is appreciated by both Christians and
non-Christians for the two day Bank holiday it brings. Unlike the two days our
government allows us in which to celebrate Christmas, the Easter holidays
never bring us a disappointing mid-week break, they always provide us with a
four day weekend. A cause for celebration indeed!
Easter arrives quietly, no fanfare, no three month long advertising campaign
like the one preceding Christmas. We aren't urged to eat too much, drink to
much, party too much, or do anything at all too much. We are permitted to
relax and enjoy family life. There is no pressure to overspend on gifts for
everyone from our nearest and dearest to the neighbour's dog. Compared to
the excesses promoted in the name of Christmas, the consumption of
chocolate eggs seems a small indulgence.
In England, Easter is the official start of the gardeners' year and also the time
when all DIY enthusiasts, as if driven by some primeval urge, embark upon
ambitious projects. If you are not interested in gardening or DIY, you have
four whole days free to enjoy as you wish.
Easter is really too early for gardeners to be chancing the lives of tender
plants but it is hard to resist the lure of the first real sunny days after the long
grey winter. Amateur gardeners take bedding plants from the hothouses and
thrust them into soil that's far too cold to encourage growth. The experienced
gardeners won't gamble on frost free conditions and content themselves with
planting the less decorative but frost-proof seed potatoes and onions.
Gardening at Easter is an anxious time because the English weather is
reliably unpredictable and even the most dedicated gardener is likely to
encounter showers heavy enough to dampen his enthusiasm and drive him
indoors for a chocolate egg break.
All the DIY jobs that have been in the planning stage since Christmas are
lined up for the Easter break. For the week preceding the holiday, the DIY
supply stores will be heaving with customers and taking more money than
during any other week of the year. Then it will all go eerily quiet while all the
customers adopt a kind of siege mentality and remain at home while they try
to cram too much work into the long-anticipated four day weekend.
At Easter Morris dancers, who are not in the least fashionable except in
spring, suddenly find themselves in demand. These troupes of dancers are
almost exclusively male, rarely seen outside of small villages and are normally
associated with a particular public house. Many pubs in England will have a
darts team or a quiz team but there are only a few that can boast their own
troupe of Morris dancers. As with playing darts, the availability of beer is an
important part of this hobby. The amazing thing about Morris dancers is not
that there are so few of them, it is that they have survived at all: grown men
dressed in silly costumes, skipping around waving handkerchiefs and pigs'
bladders to the accompaniment of ancient folk tunes have limited appeal to
most of modern society as a source of entertainment. However, they have
survived and have spread to places as distant as Canada and New Zealand.
If you want to fully enjoy all the old English Easter traditions, the best place to
be is in a quiet village far from any of the big cities. The village church will be
beautifully decorated with fresh flowers. The village Easter Bunny will hide
Easter eggs for the local children to find during the traditional Easter egg
hunt. The Morris dancers will leap and prance at the slightest encouragement.
The village bakery will offer fragrant hot cross buns warm from the oven and
Simnel cakes with home made marzipan. Easter Sunday dinner will be roast
lamb with mint sauce and all the traditional trimmings. Chocolate will be
guilt-free for a whole weekend.
Apart from the weather, which will almost certainly include showers, the
experience of Easter in a quiet English village couldn't be more idyllic. It is
only in a friendly village at this time of year that you can witness anything
approaching a return to a more innocent time. There are not many places I
can think of where an adult can dress up in a rabbit costume and hand out
chocolate to children without having to worry about getting arrested, and men
dressed all in white can skip and wave handkerchiefs at each other without
attracting the wrong sort of attention. The English village is definitely the place
to be for Easter. It is also the best place to enjoy May Day celebrations, but
that's another story.
Copyright 2006 Elaine Currie
Elaine Currie has a Work At Home Directory http://www.huntingvenus.com Full
of Ideas, Programme Reviews, Articles, Tips and Free Resources for
everyone who wants to work at home.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elaine_Currie
For some great ideas for Easter table linen, table runners and napkins.
For the ultimate resource on Easter,
visit Holidays.Net
Please come back soon - for Easter ideas for 2007.
Easter is a special time of year when we remember events of over 2000 years
ago, eat chocolate & candy and get an extra holiday!
Not only that, but on the Christian calendar it represents so much more - of
remembering that Christ died and rose again to set us free.
If you're wondering how the English celebrate Easter and why, read on:-
Easter In England - A Family Affair
By Elaine Currie
If you are a visitor to England at Easter, you would be forgiven for thinking
that the English people have nothing much in the way of Easter traditions
apart from exchanging chocolate eggs. This is because the nature of Easter
celebrations is low-key and private; Easter is a time for sober worship and
quiet family gatherings without the razzmatazz and hectic atmosphere that
accompanies Christmas. Even the exchange of Easter greetings cards tends
to be confined to close friends and family.
After the brief bright interlude of Christmas, we sink back into our torpor and
endure the dull cold winter months until our first spring bank holiday arrives
and gives us a reason to come wide awake. In England we greet Easter with
all the relief of dusty travellers arriving at an oasis in a desert. Our desert
might be grey and damp instead of sun-baked but we find the green oasis
with its promise of spring and rebirth equally as welcome.
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar but in the
multicultural society of England it is appreciated by both Christians and
non-Christians for the two day Bank holiday it brings. Unlike the two days our
government allows us in which to celebrate Christmas, the Easter holidays
never bring us a disappointing mid-week break, they always provide us with a
four day weekend. A cause for celebration indeed!
Easter arrives quietly, no fanfare, no three month long advertising campaign
like the one preceding Christmas. We aren't urged to eat too much, drink to
much, party too much, or do anything at all too much. We are permitted to
relax and enjoy family life. There is no pressure to overspend on gifts for
everyone from our nearest and dearest to the neighbour's dog. Compared to
the excesses promoted in the name of Christmas, the consumption of
chocolate eggs seems a small indulgence.
In England, Easter is the official start of the gardeners' year and also the time
when all DIY enthusiasts, as if driven by some primeval urge, embark upon
ambitious projects. If you are not interested in gardening or DIY, you have
four whole days free to enjoy as you wish.
Easter is really too early for gardeners to be chancing the lives of tender
plants but it is hard to resist the lure of the first real sunny days after the long
grey winter. Amateur gardeners take bedding plants from the hothouses and
thrust them into soil that's far too cold to encourage growth. The experienced
gardeners won't gamble on frost free conditions and content themselves with
planting the less decorative but frost-proof seed potatoes and onions.
Gardening at Easter is an anxious time because the English weather is
reliably unpredictable and even the most dedicated gardener is likely to
encounter showers heavy enough to dampen his enthusiasm and drive him
indoors for a chocolate egg break.
All the DIY jobs that have been in the planning stage since Christmas are
lined up for the Easter break. For the week preceding the holiday, the DIY
supply stores will be heaving with customers and taking more money than
during any other week of the year. Then it will all go eerily quiet while all the
customers adopt a kind of siege mentality and remain at home while they try
to cram too much work into the long-anticipated four day weekend.
At Easter Morris dancers, who are not in the least fashionable except in
spring, suddenly find themselves in demand. These troupes of dancers are
almost exclusively male, rarely seen outside of small villages and are normally
associated with a particular public house. Many pubs in England will have a
darts team or a quiz team but there are only a few that can boast their own
troupe of Morris dancers. As with playing darts, the availability of beer is an
important part of this hobby. The amazing thing about Morris dancers is not
that there are so few of them, it is that they have survived at all: grown men
dressed in silly costumes, skipping around waving handkerchiefs and pigs'
bladders to the accompaniment of ancient folk tunes have limited appeal to
most of modern society as a source of entertainment. However, they have
survived and have spread to places as distant as Canada and New Zealand.
If you want to fully enjoy all the old English Easter traditions, the best place to
be is in a quiet village far from any of the big cities. The village church will be
beautifully decorated with fresh flowers. The village Easter Bunny will hide
Easter eggs for the local children to find during the traditional Easter egg
hunt. The Morris dancers will leap and prance at the slightest encouragement.
The village bakery will offer fragrant hot cross buns warm from the oven and
Simnel cakes with home made marzipan. Easter Sunday dinner will be roast
lamb with mint sauce and all the traditional trimmings. Chocolate will be
guilt-free for a whole weekend.
Apart from the weather, which will almost certainly include showers, the
experience of Easter in a quiet English village couldn't be more idyllic. It is
only in a friendly village at this time of year that you can witness anything
approaching a return to a more innocent time. There are not many places I
can think of where an adult can dress up in a rabbit costume and hand out
chocolate to children without having to worry about getting arrested, and men
dressed all in white can skip and wave handkerchiefs at each other without
attracting the wrong sort of attention. The English village is definitely the place
to be for Easter. It is also the best place to enjoy May Day celebrations, but
that's another story.
Copyright 2006 Elaine Currie
Elaine Currie has a Work At Home Directory http://www.huntingvenus.com Full
of Ideas, Programme Reviews, Articles, Tips and Free Resources for
everyone who wants to work at home.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elaine_Currie
For some great ideas for Easter table linen, table runners and napkins.
For the ultimate resource on Easter,
visit Holidays.Net
Please come back soon - for Easter ideas for 2007.
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