Discovered at Easter Time...

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There are finally daffodils peering tentatively from their leaves, last Tuesday was Pancake Day (aka Shrove Tuesday...) and it occurs to me that we've never had an Easter Dialj challenge! I think alot of people could do with some brightly-coloured cheer just now, so perhaps it's time for...

There are a few Pros-y stories out there set around Easter, mostly involving Bodie and chocolate easter eggs, if I recall correctly, and in a way that seems strange because Easter's quite a thing over here. Back in Lads-time, the shops would be shut for days on end (well Good Friday and Easter Monday as well as the Sunday, at least) and the kids were all on holiday. There'd be hot cross buns, roast lamb on Easter Sunday, people trying to remind you that it was about church and in 1984 it would only have cost you 14p for a Cadbury's Creme Egg...

What would the lads think of Easter? A time for chocolate and too many shops shut? Or would they have been too busy dealing with Easter tensions amongst the politically active to enjoy a piece of simnel cake or an easter biscuit or two? Which of them ate the last chocolate bunny, remembers their nan wearing an Easter bonnet, refuses to get into the rabbit costume again?

Easter Monday falls on the 25th of April this year, and so whatever Easter means to you - or might have meant to the lads - if you'd like to join in the challenge, please feel free to post stories, drabbles, poems, pictures, vids and creations of all kinds anytime from now until the end of Easter Monday in your time zone (and if you need a quick visit to Pago Pago, in the very last time zone of all, then do feel free... *g*). The trailer to use is on the User Info page - simply cut and paste it to the end of your story/creation, under a cut - and if you'd like a prompt then comment below requesting one, and I'll see what olde Eastere traditione I can find for you to use as a starter... *g* And, as ever, stories etc don't have to be about Easter, simply inspired by the theme.

Comment below if you think you might join in, if you'd like a prompt, or if you've memories of Easter in lads' time that might help inspire others... or just surprise us by posting one day! So - would anyone like to play?