Easter

Once again it’s Easter time, and the weather forecast predicts a cold and gloomy one for us here in Germany. Never mind, grumbling over the weather doesn’t help; there is no bad weather just unsuitable clothing.
The photo I took is of some coloured Easter eggs hanging in a small bush in our garden. It’s
tradition in Germany to hang coloured eggs out side a week or two before Easter. The other tradition is that On Easter Sunday small gifts and Easter eggs are hidden out doors (or indoors if in bad weather) by the parents and the younger children (those that still believe in the Easter rabbit) have to search for them.

Easter egg traditions

Pace-eggs

In the North of England, at Easter time, a traditional game is played where hard-boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other players egg with their own. This is known as "egg tapping", "egg dumping" or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, the Republic of Srpska and other countries. They call it tucanje. In parts of Bavaria, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen. In South Louisiana this practice is called Pocking Eggs and is slightly different. The Cajuns hold that the winner eats the eggs of the losers in each round.

Our Easter Sunday dinner this year will be of Lamb with self made Rösti (a Swiss potato receipt) green runner beans with fried bacon wrapped around the middle of them, for dessert ice-cream with raspberry sauce and to wash that down a bottle of South Africa Pinotage. Now doesn’t that sound delicious?

The photo is of some hand painted Ukrainian Easter Eggs

We would like to wish every one who reads the Runner Blog a Happy Easter.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.