Monday, 17 April 2017

Memos, Mail, Me and Monday : Celebrating Easter

Good Morning and a big wave to Sian, the creator of the Monday slot on this Easter Monday. I hope you are all having a good holiday. It's been a busy weekend here with a lot of cooking, house cleaning and preparing on Friday and Saturday.  Luckily I have had some help with younger daughter making the Chocolate marble cake


and cutting out and cooking the Easter biscuits ( yes there were Easter biscuits).



Sunday started early with a first for me. I was out of bed by 5.30 and off out by 6.00. This was to join a sunrise service on the edge of Chew Valley Lake. This is an annual event but it's taken me some years to get there. What a moving, evocative service as the sun came up on a lovely Easter Sunday.


Who could ask for a more special setting? 



Alongside the communion bread and wine there was freshly barbecued fish to share. This latter being a first this year apparently. There was time after the service to take in the surroundings.


A row of cherry trees in blossom line the drive.





After a few more moments of tranquility it was time to return home for breakfast and the last of the preparations for Easter lunch with the family.

5 comments:

  1. Beautiful way to greet Easter Day. Good for you - would love to do that some time. Sounds much more uplifting than the service I attended. :o(
    Luckily the day itself was lovely and far better than anticipated. (I didn't make Easter cakes, thinking they wouldn't be missed ... they were! Sister: "What's the name of that oil you put in those biscuits last year? [Pause] Have you brought any? Hmm. But did you make any? Oh it doesn't matter but when you gave me that tub I thought it might have some in." Oops!)

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  2. a beautiful tranquil setting. have a good week

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  3. Your Easter cake & biscuits look a treat. What a wonderful way to greet any morning ... Happy week ahead.

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  4. Absolutely sounds worth getting out of bed for. What a start to the day!

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  5. It's been years since I attended an Easter sunrise service, and never is as beautiful a setting as this!

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