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But dont call it Easter (or Christmas) - call it being a pedantic pagan or summat.

I do actually know, as most people should, that stuff about christian cooption of some pagan festivals. & thats why there are rabbits all over easter. I am saying, however, that calling it Easter, with its now widely accepted christian overtones, and then saying heres even more sugar, seems odd. Growing plants is a miracle. Getting lollies from the Easter bunny is part of Easter, mixing the two is what you're complaining the early christians did, and seems less magic than either.

Have an alarming collection of Living etc - I cant tear out what I want bc there are too many bits...

The Times Literary Supplement is kept for a couple of months then passed on or recycled...

I, also, remember hearing & reading as a child about peacock feathers being bad luck (It is mentioned in Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals) - I wonder if it was English at some point? It was the eye that was meant to be bad...

& just bc you think superstition is silly, doesnt mean that the superstition didnt exist.

cute - but whatever does it have to do with Easter?

I am not a practicing christian, but I find this a bit ridiculous as an Easter activity - it's just lollies, even if they grow - couldnt this be a first day of spring or may day activity instead?

Sibella Court's Etcetera & Conran's great original book whose name eludes me...

waitress, fiddle

& another request for editing ability...

Surely the answer, as to almost everything is neither one nor the other?

If you bought a whole pile of globes in a job lot bc you wanted to look trendy, it is a trend. If you like & collect them, or have them with stories attached, they're timeless - the world isn't black & white, unless you have one of those monochrome globes...

OOOooooooo Virginia Woolf print...

I feel it's less say nothing if it's not nice than if you have a query about the paint dont be so rude - ask whether that is the toxic paint or whether the tape lines were intended or faded after a while - it's how you say these things - and sometimes I feel people are a bit over the top - it's not like AT are forcing us all to do that to our floor coverings...

beautiful - covetable...