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Its that time of year. 
Easter Crap
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I was really disappointed in the easter eggs I bought for them last year, and the advent calendars this last Christmas.
Just boring not as good as it ought to be chocolate. They seemed such a rip off.
So, this year I bought huge plastic eggs, and I have filled them with dozens and dozens of little eggs
Everything from Hershey's peanut butter to after eight mint ones. From Lindt to Green and Blacks, Cadbury to Thornton's. Every flavour I could find. Hazelnut, orange, mint, coffee, salted caramel, etc.,
I reckon there's enough chocolate good stuff in those to keep all four of them going until Summer
Me ? I'm still working my way through my Christmas chocolate....I like chocolate, but a wee bit's enough....so I'm getting more silver charms for my bracelet, and a solar fountain thing for the garden
the last thing I want is more chocolate.
Just boring not as good as it ought to be chocolate. They seemed such a rip off.
So, this year I bought huge plastic eggs, and I have filled them with dozens and dozens of little eggs
Everything from Hershey's peanut butter to after eight mint ones. From Lindt to Green and Blacks, Cadbury to Thornton's. Every flavour I could find. Hazelnut, orange, mint, coffee, salted caramel, etc.,I reckon there's enough chocolate good stuff in those to keep all four of them going until Summer
Me ? I'm still working my way through my Christmas chocolate....I like chocolate, but a wee bit's enough....so I'm getting more silver charms for my bracelet, and a solar fountain thing for the garden
the last thing I want is more chocolate.
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The old ones are the best….
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Loosely Easter themed:
Saint-Just
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Not sure if any of you watched Neil Gaimans - American Gods (I struggled despite loving the book) but there is a scene at Easter's (Eostre's?) with all the different Jesuses https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/a...f_Jesus.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200515213450
Wednesday, Shadow and Easter, the rest are vatious itterations of Jesus
Wednesday, Shadow and Easter, the rest are vatious itterations of Jesus
Saint-Just
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Well they forgot Dave Grohl 
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I wasn't quite five when we moved into a brand new house just after the Easter holidays. Our next door neighbours were Roman Catholic.....nominally we're Presbyterian C of Scotland, so there's a whole culture shock going on both sides of that equation.
The new neighbours hung a huge great painting on their living room wall. Mrs Sanders called it The Sacred Heart, and I admit I was upset/horrified and went home to my Mum and said that Mrs Sanders had a huge picture of a man being hurt hanging on her wall.
Ever try explaining the crucifixion to a child ? especially a literal minded one like me......anyhow, I came away with the thing resolved that really there ought not be a man being hurt on that cross, because the miracle was that he was 'Risen', and not for eternity suffering in agony of blood and tears.
Needless to say Mrs Sanders didn't agree with me on this though, and Mrs McKane said I was an evil little girl and I was going to burn in hell......so that opened up a whole other conversation..... Mrs Mulrain just said that she didn't think her children should play with me, not if I was going to ask questions ! 
1960's Scotland was a fun place to grow up
rife with sectarianism and religiously divided schools, etc.,
I still hate seeing a filled cross, and I know now from an education in history that the fish was the symbol of his time, not the cross, and that it was the medieval love of macabre and pain filled religious iconography that stuck folks with this visceral torture scene. I wish I'd known that back then because I'd really have annoyed Mrs Sanders and Mrs McKane
and probably the parish priest too.
Mrs Mulrain's eldest son was the first boy I kissed
The new neighbours hung a huge great painting on their living room wall. Mrs Sanders called it The Sacred Heart, and I admit I was upset/horrified and went home to my Mum and said that Mrs Sanders had a huge picture of a man being hurt hanging on her wall.
Ever try explaining the crucifixion to a child ? especially a literal minded one like me......anyhow, I came away with the thing resolved that really there ought not be a man being hurt on that cross, because the miracle was that he was 'Risen', and not for eternity suffering in agony of blood and tears.
Needless to say Mrs Sanders didn't agree with me on this though, and Mrs McKane said I was an evil little girl and I was going to burn in hell......so that opened up a whole other conversation.....
Mrs Mulrain just said that she didn't think her children should play with me, not if I was going to ask questions ! 1960's Scotland was a fun place to grow up
rife with sectarianism and religiously divided schools, etc.,I still hate seeing a filled cross, and I know now from an education in history that the fish was the symbol of his time, not the cross, and that it was the medieval love of macabre and pain filled religious iconography that stuck folks with this visceral torture scene. I wish I'd known that back then because I'd really have annoyed Mrs Sanders and Mrs McKane
and probably the parish priest too.Mrs Mulrain's eldest son was the first boy I kissed
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My mate Jesus passed out on a night out.
Eyes wide open, dialated but he's fine now,
It gets a little messy in Heaven.
The name had to be changed but 'Messy in Heaven' was a top selling single last year.
Eyes wide open, dialated but he's fine now,
It gets a little messy in Heaven.
The name had to be changed but 'Messy in Heaven' was a top selling single last year.
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Not exactly Easter related but playing th same theme.
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It was the blood into wine that got me 
and only the priest could drink it, but everyone drank it in kirk....
See religion ? it's nightmare.
M
and only the priest could drink it, but everyone drank it in kirk....See religion ? it's nightmare.
M
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)It was the blood into wine that got me
See religion ? it's nightmare.
M
Probably changed since then Mary as until Covid everyone was able to take communion in both kinds. A blessing for those who were on their last legs and unable to manage solids as a dab on their lips or tongue would suffice. Since Covid (like it's now gone away
) the wine was withdrawn and some priests are reluctant to reintroduce it, not because of Covid and I for one won't be partaking, but I suspect because they'd like to go back to the old ways. I stopped taking the wine years before Covid because it was blindingly obvious colds and 'flu were being passed on despite the myth that the chalice was silver and the precious metals killed the virus and that the choice was rotated and wiped between each dose.I did a good few years as a Eucharistic Minister before that and at the end of communion had to drink the left over wine that everyone had dribbled into. Used to make me want to gip.
Much preferred giving out the the hosts.
