Easter in the throes of a pandemic.
No Stations of the cross
or joyful Easter service in church.
No Spring Harvest.
No holiday in North Devon
No family visiting.
But so far we are all well.
Others have not been so fortunate.
UK Deaths have now passsed 10,000
and that is only the ones who have died in hospital.
Each death is a tragedy,
a life ended
often with the family unable to be present
or have the funeral they would have expected.
Meanwhile the garden is tidier than ever,
and for the first time in years I have resorted to planting seeds
Now I wait to see if anything will grow.
Inspired by the KHT's Easter picture,
I added a couple of boxes of small chocolate eggs to my pre-Easter supermarket trip.
After lunch on Easter Day I suggested to the KHT.
"Shall we have an Easter Egg Hunt?"
"Well, if all the grandkids were here, we could."
"Because of the Corona Virus
they can't come.
That doesn't stop US having
an Easter Egg Hunt."
A deep sigh emanated from the KHT
"You are not getting it, are you!
It's not much fun having an Easter Egg Hunt with just one person looking."
And in a way she was right.
There would be no screaming and rushing, fighting to get the eggs.
Mind you, under Grandma's rules, you give away all the eggs you find,
and you receive the ones others harvest.
Result, the distribution of eggs per person ends up being incredibly even,
as it is all about sharing not personal gain.
In 2020 Easter is very different.
This would be Lockdown Easter Egg Hunt.
I would hide the eggs.
The KHT could find them.
I would take some photos (surprise surprise).
Then we would give some away and keep some for ourselves.
Those who received the eggs could guess which ones they got from the photos posted online!
So we lost the rushing and screaming, but kept the sharing.
Here are some of the photos. Can you spot the eggs?
Once the eggs were carefully hidden, I summonds the KHT,
before the eggs either got rained on,
melted in the sunshine,
or both!
She was rather suprised to find some eggs waiting for her
"Hey, there is something in my shoe!
...AND the other one too!"
The question at the end of any Easter Egg Hunt is inevitably
"Have we found them all?"
After two further tours of the garden I thought we had.
Later, after DH returned from his allotment we found a couple more!
DH thought that there might have been a cunning plan...
"Didn't you count them all as you hid them?"
Hiding eggs, taking photos, trying to remember where I had put them AND counting..
"Erm....Nope! I just had fun hiding them!"
However one of them was such a perfect hiding place that I am not going to disclose the location
as I might want to use it again - and I had completely forgotten about that particular egg!
"I thought I had better check there,
because it is JUST the sort of place you would hide an egg!"
And they were right!
No Spring Harvest.
No holiday in North Devon
No family visiting.
But so far we are all well.
Others have not been so fortunate.
UK Deaths have now passsed 10,000
and that is only the ones who have died in hospital.
Each death is a tragedy,
a life ended
often with the family unable to be present
or have the funeral they would have expected.
Meanwhile the garden is tidier than ever,
and for the first time in years I have resorted to planting seeds
Now I wait to see if anything will grow.
I added a couple of boxes of small chocolate eggs to my pre-Easter supermarket trip.
After lunch on Easter Day I suggested to the KHT.
"Shall we have an Easter Egg Hunt?"
"Well, if all the grandkids were here, we could."
"Because of the Corona Virus
they can't come.
That doesn't stop US having
an Easter Egg Hunt."
A deep sigh emanated from the KHT
"You are not getting it, are you!
It's not much fun having an Easter Egg Hunt with just one person looking."
And in a way she was right.
There would be no screaming and rushing, fighting to get the eggs.
Mind you, under Grandma's rules, you give away all the eggs you find,
and you receive the ones others harvest.
Result, the distribution of eggs per person ends up being incredibly even,
as it is all about sharing not personal gain.
In 2020 Easter is very different.
This would be Lockdown Easter Egg Hunt.
I would hide the eggs.
The KHT could find them.
I would take some photos (surprise surprise).
Then we would give some away and keep some for ourselves.
Those who received the eggs could guess which ones they got from the photos posted online!
So we lost the rushing and screaming, but kept the sharing.
Here are some of the photos. Can you spot the eggs?
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| These should be found first... |
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| Hidden in full view |
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| This was one of my favourites! |
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| mock grape hyacinth |
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| Imitation |
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| Inside the Summer House... |
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| Trinity? |
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| Just Call Me Sunshine |
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| Two Red Bottle lights |
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| "And it was all yellow..." |
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| Balancing act |
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| The real Easter Egg? |
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| Climbing Egg |
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| Going for Gold |
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| Outside the Summer House |
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| Border Patrol |
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| No snowflake |
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| Green Olives? |
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| Easter Lamb |
Once the eggs were carefully hidden, I summonds the KHT,
before the eggs either got rained on,
melted in the sunshine,
or both!
She was rather suprised to find some eggs waiting for her
"Hey, there is something in my shoe!
...AND the other one too!"
Off she went finding eggs in all sorts of expected
and unexpected places
and unexpected places
The question at the end of any Easter Egg Hunt is inevitably
"Have we found them all?"
After two further tours of the garden I thought we had.
Later, after DH returned from his allotment we found a couple more!
DH thought that there might have been a cunning plan...
"Didn't you count them all as you hid them?"
Hiding eggs, taking photos, trying to remember where I had put them AND counting..
"Erm....Nope! I just had fun hiding them!"
However one of them was such a perfect hiding place that I am not going to disclose the location
as I might want to use it again - and I had completely forgotten about that particular egg!
"I thought I had better check there,
because it is JUST the sort of place you would hide an egg!"
And they were right!
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| The First Easter Egg Hunt - by the KHT |
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