Special events throughout the year
are always a good starting point for reviving memories for all of us and Easter
is no exception.
Many traditions based around this festival are inevitably centred on the church
and the Easter story, and sadly this year our celebrations will be curtailed.
However, we can cast our minds back to the time when as children we made an
Easter garden on a tray and attended special church services on Good Friday and
Easter Sunday.
Perhaps you were involved in
community events such as attending a ‘sunrise service’, ‘egg rolling’, egg
decorating, Easter egg hunts or creating an Easter bonnet! Maybe you made Easter
cards at school or bought some like the ones shown below.
We will all have celebrated Easter in
some way and many traditions still continue in villages across Cornwall, or
perhaps within families.
Needless to say, as with many
celebrations it’s food which continues to be the main source of our communal
festivities – hot cross buns, chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies spring to mind,
but let’s not forget the tradition of boiled eggs for breakfast on Easter
morning, roast lamb for lunch, Easter biscuits and simnel cake – a fruit cake
decorated with eleven marzipan balls representing eleven of the twelve apostles
– minus Judas, of course.
Whatever your recollections of
Easters gone by, we hope you enjoy this year’s celebrations as we look forward
to Springtime which is now well on its way!
