What festival would we have been celebrating?

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Talking about Diwali on the phone with my sister and discussing what we did at primary school 25 years ago for festivals of various religions/cultures …

I very vaguely remember doing a festival once at school where we were given a tree branch to decorate with pink tissue paper to look like cherry blossom and made it to carry over it over one shoulder . I think there was a song too .

But I can’t think what it could have been for . It would have been about springtime, north east Scotland, about 1996 .

I keep thinking it was for some sort of religious festival - there was something important about it - but genuinely can’t think what! I can’t find anything online that even vaguely matches .

I remember my mum keeping the branch for years too . I think it was only chucked out when we eventually moved house .

wondering if anyone has any ideas? Maybe just something my teacher came up with herself !!

Japan's Cherry Blossom Festivals perhaps?

www.tripsavvy.com/japan-cherry-blossom-festivals-1550069

It'll be the Japanese cherry blossom festival Sakura Matsuri

On lesser known festivals, today is Kukur Tihar - the Nepalese dog festival

Oh wow, that does ring a bell now, thanks so much ! Funny the things that stick in your mind, I can vividly picture it . I think I must have been primary 1 but not sure, I remember the branch being in the house when my parents marriage ended and certainly I was in P1 when they split up . Gosh .