As someone said on Twitter this week, at Easter you get a relaxing holiday, chocolate and a faint air of melancholy.
Christmas has that awful "rolling thunder" that starts in September; the pressure to socialise; high expectations - "this year it will be perfect" - and the threat of bad weather as people set off on impossibly long journeys with cars stuffed full of.....nonsense.
The country grinds to a halt for far too long. Grizzly over-indulged children cry because they can't choose which present to play with.
And then there's the enemy lurking in the brined bath in the garden: the turkey. Waiting to trip up the average cook with its insatiable demand for accompaniments and its tendency to go dry.
As our US friends would say, "enough already!"
Easter on the other hand has chocolate eggs and hot cross buns; a harmless looking bunny, Easter bonnets and the first lamb of spring for lunch. And two days' holiday. For those of us who know/and or care about the religious festival, (a dwindling number) it's a more uplifting celebration, albeit more mystical and challenging than Christmas.
Here's to Easter Day - the shops are shut and it's raining, what could be better?
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Easter is pretty much perfect......
I like your perspective on this. Easter has always made me sadder than Christmas simply because I always have to work the next day! How lame is that? But you are so right about how Easter allows us to rejoice in the early days of spring, not being tripped up by commercialism and shopping mania.
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