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Good Friday
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Steve Coffin
Hello everybody
 
Good to be back reading all the drivel and nonsense that appears on this wonderful website. Glad the reunion went well, more pictures please!!
 
Surprised that there has been no mention of Easters pass. I can remember hating Good Friday because it was boiled fish and I was not allowed out to play. Something to do with a chap being crucified so why Good Friday?
 
Easter day was a chance to eat your egg but not all of it before your dinner, we call it lunch now!!!
 
 
Cheers
 
Steve
Apr. 2, 2010  (Edited Apr. 4, 2010)
 
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Stuart Stickler
Hi Steve, see you enjoyed India. Strangely enough we had fish for dinner today, (tea time as it used to be), quite why we had fish today I don't particularly understand 'cos I'm a confirmed atheist and Shirl's closer to being a buddhist than anything else, although I was allowed out to play. Funny how so many of us eschew religion but maintain the festivals, through habit and tradition I suppose, I don't really do Christmas either, miserable old sod aren't I, might celebrate the summer solstice by way of recompense.
Apr. 2, 2010 
 
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John Stickland
Hi Stu, Steve and all.
Heaven forbid, Stu. The thoughts of you prancing around Stonehenge at mid summer with flowers in your 'at, the mind boggles!
It is strange as Steve says, that on the day that is supposed to commemorate a bloke being nailed to a cross they call it GOOD!
I will admit that as a kid I didn't look forward to it much as my Mother used to make me get up very early and ride my bike down to the local bakers to collect hot cross buns. Never did like getting up early! The only consolation was the eating of the buns.
I remember that as a child of about five or six I was given an large sugar Easter egg which was elaborately decorated with icing. It had a hole about an inch in diam in one end which was sealed with a piece of celluloid to form a small window. As the 'shell' was made of sugar light could pass through enabling one to observe the contents of the egg through the window. Inside there was a diarama composed of an icing landscape with paper figures.
My mother decided that this small masterpiece was far too good to eat so it was 'Put away' after Easter and brought out every year thereafter, a bit like Christmas trimmings. It lasted at least ten years to my knowledge, but I'm not sure exactly what happened to it in the end.
There's nowt so strange as folk!
Have fun.
Sticky.
Apr. 3, 2010 
 
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Stuart Stickler
Stonehenge John! no I'm coming up to Minchinghampton Common where I shall disport myself as nature intended, ha ha.
 
Funny innit, historians and the like will tell you that the Romans never used that particular type of cross, not painful enough, so wonder where that came from ? Still always look on the bright side.
 
Bunnies, Stu
Apr. 3, 2010 
 
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John Stickland
Hi Stu.
I should give Minchinhampton a miss if I were you, our neighbour is grazing his longhorn cattle up there. Now that's what I call painful brings tears to your eyes just thinking about it!
Almost as bad as your Eric Idle theme 'Always look on the bright side', indeed!
Have fun.
Sticky.
Apr. 4, 2010 
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