Easter is fast approaching and like a lot of folk I shall be having a fortnight off. I can't chuffin wait!
These days time off is exciting for me simply because I won't be at work. That's enough in itself.
But what about when I was a kid?
I've been trying to think back as to what I thought about Easter back in the Sixties. I imagine I was even more excited at the prospect of two weeks off school. I'm pretty sure I would have been ecstatic!
So what was the build-up to Easter like back then? Being from a RC family Lent was celebrated but I can hardly recall anything about it now.
I know Good Friday involved something fishy.
I also think I remember that TV went into a bit of a holiday mode over the four main Easter days showing lots of family films and old series like Flash Gordon. Does that ring a bell?
I know Good Friday involved something fishy.
I also think I remember that TV went into a bit of a holiday mode over the four main Easter days showing lots of family films and old series like Flash Gordon. Does that ring a bell?
I do remember Easter Monday and I'm pleased to say it involved some toys. Easter toys! But more on that nearer the day.
What was your Lent/ pre-Easter like readers. Was it important to you and did you get any early presents?
It seems the schools here are back to a week long vacation at Easter.They simply call it Spring Break.As a kid,I only got a 3 day weekend,off for Good Friday.This will be a much needed 3 days off work for me, as Good Friday is a Union holiday.
ReplyDeletehave a great holiday Brian! Put your feet up!
DeleteIn Finland, the standard Easter break is four days only, from Good Friday to Easter Monday. So no long hols for us Finns. On the other hand, the spring term ends on the 2nd of June and schools start again on August 9th.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely Easter weekend Arto full of new hope and warm beginnings.
DeleteI have a memory from the early 50's of a purchase from Woolworth's of a 5" long pale blue plastic pick-up truck with a foil wrapped chocolate egg in the back bed, all wrapped in cellophane.
ReplyDeleteThe wheels and axles were white plastic and the front axle had a silhouette rabbit attached so that as the truck rolled the rabbit bobbed up and down.
The chocolate egg was exceptionally good. The truck was around for many years before being accidentally crushed.
I have exactly the same memory Terran. I recall the make of truck I got too, a Ford Thames. It had a foil-wrapped egg on the back and the whole think was wrapped in cellophane too! I think we got the same Easter gift, though mine was the mid-Sixties. Not sure about the rabbit though. Great toy.
DeleteI think I remember Easter eggs with coloured cardboard things to make, as on Xmas selection boxes?
ReplyDeleteDefinately Andy. It was a perfect match of fun and education cutting those shapes out and making whatever it was. My favourite card item was a cardboard clock shaped like an octogon - or maybe it was a twelve-sided shape?]. Each hour had a small foil-wrapped egg below it and I think it had plastic clock hands that you could move round. Great thing it was.
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