Categories: seasons
Date: 29 March 2008 00:49:05
Over the years I have collected a number of decorated eggs on ribbons from Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Don't ask me how I managed to transport these delicate items back home without crushing them but somehow each is still in one piece.
I rarely display the eggs because I don't know quite what to do with them. I had fleeting thoughts of making an Easter tree this year but the thoughts were very fleeting and I wasn't really inspired as to how to make this a reality and was not sure that it wouldn't take up too much space in the humble dwelling. On Easter Saturday I had a brainwave. Why not string the eggs up in the windows?! Ta-daa! Easy. So I did.
I noticed that the church has already taken down the illuminated cross which stands on the bell tower. I think it goes up on Palm Sunday and comes down again on the Wednesday after Easter Sunday. Palm Sunday seems a bit premature to display Easter egg decorations as there is still the solemnity of Good Friday to take place. In the absence of a traditional date such as there is for taking down Christmas decorations I think I will take these Easter eggs down on Sunday. A week: too short, too long? What think you, gentle readers?