Easter now and then. in The odd entries from life …….

These last months the regular events of our year seem to escape me, all of a sudden some event is just round the corner, until to day Easter was weeks off and he site here with the dates. Next Sunday is Palm Sunday, then there is Maundy Thursday a Holy Day; the day our Queen gives out the Maundy Money to 180 pensioners, ninety male and ninety female the number going up each year to match the Queen’s age.

Good Friday was a quiet day when I was young, not so now, shop and shopping is the thing as others knelt to pray and traffic rumble by. Saturday was the day we had hot cross buns, they were only on sale before Easter then; now they are here right through the year, for something spousal we could by more expensive hot cross buns; perhaps not!

The second Sunday from now is Easter Sunday, the most important day in the Christian Calendar, thankfully this day is not overwhelmed with buying; a chocolate Easter Egg will suffice. Our only Christian Celebration not overrun or forgotten. As will as the celebration.

Easter Monday brings back memories one Easter Monday in late fifties or the late sixties, it was a time when only a few of the friends parents in School had a car, we were lucky with Dad owning a car, on that Easter Monday we went down to south Shropshire and a popular valley, then thirty miles an hour was a good speed and we were in a long queue rather like train. Of course the valley was getting full, and at lunch time there was another queue; this time for the café.

We bought drinks in glass bottles, crisps and apple pies in boxes’ from the shop; we were there often after but with a picnic. One of the visits we had our picnic spread on the grass, and one of sheep grazing near by liked the look of our food; soon the sheep was standing in the middle of the picnic, shooing didn’t do anything so we saw the funny and sat there laughing …..

Sunday is the best for television, mainly for John le Carrie’s story ‘The Night Manager’ as a series on BBC 1, tonight we had episode four, in one part David Cornwall makes a short appearance as a grumbled old man; better now as John le Carrie. Some writers like to show their face in the film, I recall Author C Clark seen as a tramp in the background in ‘2010’ a follow on of ‘2001 a Space Odyssey; not as good as the first film.

Last updated March 14, 2016