Happy easter weekend.......

Subject: Happy easter weekend.......
From: skarpi
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:22 PM

Hallo all mudcatters, I just want to say to you all HAPPY EASTER WEEKEND. It have started here in Iceland, we have five days off. Here in Iceland we have a nice wheather,-2 frost and sun day after day and all the summer birds are coming to us,it is so nice to see them back. All the best from me, skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:25 PM

-2 is nice weather??? Is that -2C? Even that is only 38F!! I don't think I want to be in Iceland in the winter!! And Happy Easter to you too, skarps, hope you get lots of chocolate rabbits!!

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: skarpi
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:30 PM

Jap, it is -2 on celsius, Sorcha we dont have chocolate rabbits in Iceland, we have Easter cocolate EGGS with Easter chicken on the topp. all the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:36 PM

Oh man, we got reabbits, chickens, eggs, you name it we got it. Brown chocolate, white chocolate, jelly eggs, malt eggs, hollow eggs, Cadbury Creme eggs, EVERYTHING except those wonderful German eggs that are hazlenut paste/cream layered with dark chocolate inside a milk chocolate egg! I NEED on of those!!! They are big, too. About the size of a duck egg. Oh, and we don't have "kinder egss", they are hollow with a toy inside.

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: thosp
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 07:38 PM

HAPPY EASTER back at you and your's Skarpi---- and to all Mudcatters of Christian (& Pagan) persuasion!!!-------------Happy Passover to those of the Jewish persuasion----

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Hollowfox
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 10:06 AM

Thanks for thinking of us, Skarpi! May you have a grand Easter holiday. And a grand holiday-of-choice to everyone else!

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 10:22 AM

And a Happy Easter to everyone too!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 11:17 AM

Happy Easter to "All Hands" Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: vindelis
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 11:57 AM

here's hoping it is a peaceful Easter everywhere love vindelis

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:25 PM

Ta'

I'll be doing my standard, renting "Life Of Brian" and roasitng a rabbit!

{~`

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 01:53 PM

I escape the celts and british with greek Check this out- Easter Greetings I also have peter cotton tail for you! cottontail

Have a good celebration! Conrad

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 03:57 PM

Happy Easter back to you, Skarpi and happy Easter or happy holiday to all cats of any persuasion. For me, it is the grandest of celebrations.

Banjoman

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: TerriM
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 04:49 PM

and much chocolate to all, especially Liz the Squeak who, if not enough choccie is forthcoming, will be heard in Iceland.

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: SDShad
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 05:03 PM

Hey, -2C on April 19 might be worth it for 5 days off for Easter. So how's the job market in Iceland for folksinging network cooridnators, Skarpi?

2 1/2 days off for Easter here. The students and faculty get Friday and Monday off, but we lowly staff get Good Friday afternoon. Oh well.

The best of Easter (in the Christian or Pagan sense), Passover, Earth Day, to all 'Catters, family, and friends.

It's going to be a good one, I think.

Chris

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: roopoo
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 02:59 AM

This Easter has started off very well: On Wednesday night I went to listen to "Messiah" performed by the local district choral society, and accompanied by 22 musicians from the Halle Orchestra. 700 people packed into Snaith Priory Church and it was magic! Last night in our local village church 23 of us sat around a table for a service of Holy Communion which was part of a Passover meal to celebrate the Last Supper. The Bishop of Doncaster presided. It was very moving.

Whatever your religious persuasion - or even if you have none - I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Spring seems to have finally arrived here, (my peas are growing), and my husband out in Siberia tells me the temperature is permanently above freezing now. I hope you chocaholics all get your desires. 2 years ago I had Easter in Belgium - nyah! nyah! I love the way they decorate trees for Easter in mainland Europe, something I hope catches on here. Our local Somerfield supermarket has sort of done one as part of a promotion. There's hope yet.

mouldy

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: The Beanster
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 03:45 AM

Hey, Skarpi, quite the heat wave, huh? LOL At least your chocolate eggs won't melt in the hot Icelandic sun!

Just a little memory...when I was little, my big brother used to tell me and my sisters this very elaborate story every Easter about how he one time saw the Easter Bunny sneaking around the house, filling up our Easter baskets. Said he was big and purple and fuzzy. I actualy believed him for many years...maybe I still DO believe him... hahaaaa

Happy Easter to you Skarpi and to all!

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: InOBU
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 07:39 AM

Happy Easter! Happy Passover, and to all my Republican Sisters and Brothers, an Easter Monday of rememberance.
All the best
Larry

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: MMario
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 09:33 AM

I've always been a fan of the Easter Beagle, myself. Thank you Charlie Shultz!

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 10:57 AM

Skarpi.

You and I seem to be the most "outlandish" Mudcatters.

You, from Iceland on your side of the world, celebrating spring, and, me from my Island, on the other side, celebrating autumn. May all between us live in peace thoughout the coming year.

BTW - could someone please explain the meaning of the words "day off" and "holiday" - Am I correct in assuming they are days when one doesn't work? What a novel idea! I must see if the shop can order me one of those from the mainland....;^)

And, as to food? All I have for Easter tucker is a 5lb lobster to chew my way through - it'd be boring without the (cold) hot-cross buns....;^)

Aroha - Sam

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Apr 00 - 04:54 PM

OK, in the USA "day off" is a day when you don't go to work. Most folks have five working days and two days off in a work week. Often the days off are Saturday and Sunday. A holiday is established by legal authority, usually state or national, and may or may not involve thet closing of government agencies (post office, etc.), businesses, etc. The "bigger" the holiday, the more people will likely have the day off. More stores are closed on Christmas than on, say, Memorial Day (a national holiday to remember those who died in the armed forces). And then there are the holidays (frequently liturgigcal, originally) that ae celebrated, one way or the other, but the government doesn't declare them, and nothing shuts down. Halloween, Valentine's Day, etc. The American equivalent of the British word "holiday" is "vacation".

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Wavestar
Date: 27 Apr 00 - 02:37 PM

Umm.. I'm pretty certain Billy was joking, Hollowfox. But it was kind of you to answer. Happy delayed Easter, Mudcat.

-J

Subject: RE: Happy easter weekend.......
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 27 Apr 00 - 10:21 PM

And Happy Easter weekend (upcoming) to those who follow the Orthodox Christian calendar.