Easter traditions from when you were little?

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New outfit or ‘Rig out’ as my gran would call it

Painting boiled eggs and rolling them down a hill.

Easter egg and fatty leg of lamb, lashing of mint sauce and gravy mopped up with white bread and butter

Easter eggs. That’s it.

New clothes/ hot cross buns/ Easter bonnet competitions/ egg decorating competitions/ chocolate eggs.
Church not so much but vaguely remember faffing about with palm leaves when quite young.

Waking up to Easter eggs at the foot of our bed.

The Easter bunny painting silly faces on the eggs in the fridge which we’d have for breakfast.

A big family roast at the end of the day.

Thats about it, I do the same for my own family now except the eggs on DCs bed part - I’m not as laissez faire about chocolate access as my mother was 😂 they get a few on the sofa downstairs and can eat one egg through the day and the rest is eaten at a sensible rate over the next couple of weeks!

Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday with palm crosses, Mass with proper bread, bells from Rome, egg hunting, fatty leg of lamb. There was a lot of Church.

Picking primroses and violets out of the ditch for a bunch for Gran.

We got an Easter Egg each at Breakfast.
Then went to Church.
Would have a roast dinner. (but the second two we would do every Sunday).

Painting hard-boiled eggs.
Going on an Easter egg hunt around the garden, followed by toasted hot cross buns for breakfast.
Church.

One Easter egg from your mum and dad and one from your nana, probably bought at Woolworths.

Making something Easter/Spring related for your mum at school.

That’s it.

New clothes (rig out) painting boiled eggs and rolling them down a big hill. Eating lots of chocolate eggs and a nice dinner.

Oh gosh nothing apart from Easter eggs

Nothing much. Maybe one egg. But we weren’t at all religious and I don’t particularly like chocolate. Never had an egg hunt, special meal, or anything really.

Never felt hard done by and find if very hard to get revved up for Easter with the kids as a result. It’s an egg each and be grateful for it 😂

The first of two Turkey dinners each year.

Fish pie on Good Friday.

Ps what is a rig out? Is it a dialect phrase? Scottish/ Welsh/ Irish/ traveller or something? I’ve never heard of it.

Oranges are given out by the Mayor

The end of Lent, which involved no sweets and daily early Mass, the enormous drama of Holy Week (lots of church services entered on the torture and execution of Jesus, solemn confessions, the annual hilarity of which twelve people’s feet the parish priest would wash on Holy Thursday, the Stations of the Cross, fasting on Good Friday, Easter Vigil mass on Holy Saturday night), my dad doing a complicated treasure hunt for eggs on Easter Sunday.

Just an outfit. Irish, perhaps elsewhere also. Now rather archaic.

We always had roast lamb, and I vaguely remember making Easter bonnets at school.

There were local parades of church groups and bands. Plus fish and chips on good Friday

Always a new outfit from my gran, coloured boiled eggs for breakfast, roast lamb or turkey for dinner and a Bogtrotter sized chocolate cake with crystallised violets on it. This all came from my nan. My mum dropped all traditions as she was a rotten cook but she did go to Suttons factory bakehouse shop for fresh hotcross buns in a brown paper bag on Good Friday. People would queue down the road for them and the smell from.the factory was amazing.

Church and Christian assemblies at school.

Nothing else - no eggs, bunnies, or new outfits.

Decorating hard boiled eggs then rolling them down a hill.
Not sure which day we did this as Easter Monday isn't a holiday in Scotland.

Getting chocolate eggs.

Singing ‘There is a green hill far away’ at primary school. Easter crafts/cards at school.
Palm Sunday walking to the main square and putting the palm crosses on the mantle piece after. Hot cross buns from the bakery. Fish on Good Friday.

Easter Sunday Roast lamb and daffodils on the table. Charlton Heston Ben Hur/Ten Commandments on TV and Easter Parade.
Painting hard boiled eggs and taking a picnic on Easter Monday to roll them down hill in the park (150 years tradition).
Relatives giving chocolate eggs. Weather ranging from sun to snow (but normally drizzle).