HAVE A CRACKING EASTER

Oh it’s so lovely having my sweet Son here. I love it when it’s away and my boy is back to almost his old self. I will never understand why when it’s here, he acts so differently? We have another week before peace is over.

 

When I was out in the garden today, my dogs were out with me. My neighbour was surprised as they were playing but then my little Waggatail took herself into the dog run and did her busy busy. Then out with a smile as though to say. “Aren’t I a good girl?” And she was, as she could have just done it in the garden. I didn’t ask her to go in there.

 

I’m looking forward to a nice long weekend. Hub off work tomorrow and Monday for Easter.

 

Teen enjoyed fishing, but when he told me his story I did smile, until the ending though, but the fish didn’t die. Anyway, his friend had a small rod. The fish took the bait and pulled the rod from the friend’s hand. Off it went and Teen spent ages fishing for his friend’s rod. Hehehe. Found it, but poor fish still attached on it so they let it go bless. I said he was meant to catch fish not rods.

 

Hub in the gym now, I haven’t been for a few days. No way I can today as my leg is still in pain.

 

I have just finished dinner. Eating it that is, and I am starving. Why? Because I only ate the salad. The macaroni I left for later, just didn’t fancy it. I have such pains in my useless eyes today. As though a sharp knife is being used to carve into my eyeball. Why is it that we have pain as well as blindness? Not a fair world right?

 

You know yesterday was April fool’s day? Where we play jokes on someone before mid-day, why before mid-day? Not sure. But I was reading about someone in the work place who has a guide dog, they were told that their dog had got out from the office and was on the streets. Oh the poor person frantically went running to try to find it with the help of other colleagues. Then the stupid individual, who set the alarm about the dog, came out laughing with the so called lost dog. It was a prank. Really not funny as what if there had bene a fire? What would happen if people went around steeling others reading glasses in the work place? Or if you use a wheel chair, to get anywhere outside, and someone stole that for a joke? It’s sick and I really hope she suffers. I know you shouldn’t wish harm on anyone and I love a joke and I even make fun of my own disability as you know, but to do that? It’s so bad. Don’t you think?

 

Thankfully the person was OK in the end. It’s bullying I think in the work place though.

 

OK, going to see if a local chip shop will deliver for tomorrow, as we can’t get to one, we don’t know where there are any. As we have never been taught that route, but also we want our Son to have a meal with us and he won’t venture into town with us. He would tell us to go and he would do without. Easter is about families. I guess what lad of eighteen wants to be with his parents?

 

Before I go, some fun cracking facts, for Easter.

1. Every child in the UK receives an average of 8.8 Easter eggs every year – double their recommended calorie intake for a whole week.

2. The largest ever Easter egg hunt was in Florida, where 9,753 children searched for 501,000 eggs.

3. In 2007, an Easter egg covered in diamonds sold for almost £9 million. Every hour, a cockerel made of jewels pops up from the top of the Faberge egg, flaps its wings four times, nods its head three times and makes a crowing noise. The gold-and-pink enamel egg was made by the Russian royal family as an engagement gift for French aristocrat Baron Edouard de Rothschild.

4. When people gorge on a chocolate Easter bunny, 76 per cent bite off the ears first, 5 per cent go for the feet and 4 per cent opt for the tail.

5. With all those eggs and other chocolate treats for family, relatives, loved ones and friends, it should be no surprise that households spend an average of £75 on Easter each year.

6. In the USA, 90 million chocolate bunnies and 91.4 billion eggs are produced each year. At Easter, Americans also consume more than 16 million jellybeans used to fill the hollow centre of Easter eggs, and that’s enough to circle the globe three times over.

7. The White House hosts an Easter Egg Roll on the front lawn each year. This tradition was started by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878.

8. Sales at Easter time make up 10 per cent of UK chocolate spending for the whole year.

9. The UK’s first chocolate egg was produced in 1873 by Fry’s of Bristol.

10. The tallest chocolate Easter egg was made in Italy in 2011. Standing 10.39 metres tall and weighing 7,200 kg, it was taller than a giraffe and heavier than an elephant. But Portugal is the home of the largest decorated Easter egg, which reached almost 15m in height and 8m in diameter when it was made in 2008.

11. In 2012, London hosted the world’s biggest-ever Easter egg hunt.

12. The world’s most popular egg-shaped chocolate is Cadbury’s Creme Egg. Workers at Cadbury in Birmingham produce 1.5 million of these very day.

13. On Easter Sunday in Scotland and North-East England, some people have great fun rolling painted eggs down steep hills. This is also popular in parts of America, where people push the egg along with a spoon.

14. Temptation can be too much and 43 per cent of kids say they eat their first chocolate egg before Easter Sunday, but the average time for children to eat their first Easter egg is 11am on Easter Sunday morning.

15. Almost one in five children (19 per cent) say they’ve made themselves ill by eating too much chocolate over the Easter holidays.

16. The name Easter owes its origin to Eostre or Eastre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of light and the dawn who was honoured at pagan festivals celebrating the arrival of spring.

17. In medieval times, a festival of egg throwing was held in church, when the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choirboys. It was then tossed from one choirboy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and could keep it.

18. The custom of giving eggs at Easter has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, for whom the egg was a symbol of life.