The Timetable

Easter morning

12.15 am Drink First Coffee. Text Easter greetings to Daughter and LYS

1.00 am Bed

7.00 am exchange Easter eggs with Tony

7.15 am go back to sleep. Tony out to breakfast communion

Not telling you when , got up.

10.45 am about to leave for church

10.46 am LOS and Lady Sunshine arrive, so get a lift to church.

11.00 am Happy, joy-filled, music-filled, flower-filled Easter Eucharist. Give jelly beans to children. (NB Lucy likes the orange ones.)

12.30 ish to church hall. Give jelly beans to everyone else. Drink Second Coffee. Hug people. Clear up all Holy Week tables, prayer stations, etc, set out last week, as well as purple jelly beans under high chair. (NB Lucy doesn't like the purple ones.).

1.15 Home. Put potatoes on to boil. Drink Third Coffee. Exchange Easter eggs with Sunshines.

2.30 Lunch, followed by Fourth and Fifth Coffees. Knit, chat, discuss football with Hamilton, laugh a lot. Cold outside and rainy, so give happy countryside walk a miss and watch movie with Sixth Coffee. Tony out to evening service.

7.00 pm. Dish up bowl of hard-boiled eggs. Jarp them. (This is a Northumbrian term for bumping them end to end. Can explain in detail in a later post if you like. It took some explaining to Lady Sunshine, who comes from the south. All eat hard-boiled eggs with bread and butter and delicious Simnel Cake brought by Lady Sunshine. Couldn't face another coffee. Drink Tea.