Know Your Elves - The Red Robin Round

Scarinae

When I was a child we usually had the grandparents around for a roast dinner, and of course we had an Easter egg hunt in the garden (or in the house if it was raining). These days I don't mark it in any particular way apart from enjoying the days off and eating chocolate

Scarinae

Today's question - do you abstain from meat and alcohol on Good Friday?

Loughc

Scarinae wrote: »

Today's question - do you abstain from meat and alcohol on Good Friday?

No to meat, and yes by default to alcohol as I don't drink at home so with the pubs closed there's no need to.

Toto Wolfcastle

Mmmmmmm meat and alcohol



Nope. I usually have a drink or two at home on Friday night and Good Friday doesn't stop that. And meat is too delicious to give up for a day.

Posy

Nope. I definitely eat meat on Good Friday- and I might go completely mad and have a beer in front of the tv. :pac:

emmagination

I don't purposefully abstain from either however for the past few years I've been in my boyfriend's parents' house for Easter weekend. As we don't eat fish that means cheesey pizza for dinner!

DrJ

I'm usually at home with my parents at Easter so eating meat on Good Friday is a big no no. Same for alcohol. I'm going to cook fish for the family instead. On Easter Sunday we actually usually do the turkey and ham again and eat loads of chocolate so Easter is always like Christmas which is cool
Regarding the earlier question - I used to 'celebrate' Easter I suppose because I used to go to mass with the family when I was growing up and at one point in my teens we had a nice priest that used to distribute Creme Eggs on the way out after mass!

CarrieAnne

Normally yes to both, no meat or wine.

Looking forward to Easter - its big family dinner time here again - so far 9 and counting...

washiskin

Hello fellow elves! Do you put up an Easter tree? I got a present of painted eggs an ceramic bunnies from Switzerland years ago as my sis saw trees in the shop there. I put them away and as per usual I forgot where and my o/h found them on Sunday (16 yrs later:eek:). So I put mine up yesterday.

kitten_k

^^^

Pic?

Never heard of an Easter Tree.

washiskin

kitten_k wrote: »

^^^

Pic?

Never heard of an Easter Tree.

If I can figure how to post from my tablet I'll post one when I get home ;)

Loughc

Believe it or not it is a thing! I don't have one or would even consider getting one. I like leaving the decorations for the Christmas period and go OTT then

Scarinae

Oh my god I'd completely forgotten about the existence of Easter trees! We used to have them when I was little. We used to love painting eggs for the tree - you put a hole in each end of the egg and blow all the yolk and whites out, and then tie a small piece of metal to the end of a string and poke it through one of the holes so you can hang it up. And then paint the eggs, of course.

Loughc

Double Question today given the day that's in it,

What's the best April Fool's you've seen/heard about?

Toto Wolfcastle

Not one that anyone would fall for, but I'd say it was great fun for them to film and it sounds like the best idea ever!

Scarinae

Are you doing anything nice for the Easter weekend?

Loughc

Scarinae wrote: »

Are you doing anything nice for the Easter weekend?

Two words... Chocolate Coma.... :pac::pac:

Scarinae

Loughc wrote: »

Two words... Chocolate Coma.... :pac::pac:

Best Easter ever

kitten_k

Heading to see Jersey Boys

Toto Wolfcastle

How much chocolate have you eaten this Easter?

I've only had a couple of chocolate pralines and about a quarter of an Easter egg. I think the idea of eating chocolate all day appeals to me more than the reality of doing it.

Loughc

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

How much chocolate have you eaten this Easter?

I've only had a couple of chocolate pralines and about a quarter of an Easter egg. I think the idea of eating chocolate all day appeals to me more than the reality of doing it.

I managed to finish off a Giant Cadbury's Egg and a small one all to myself over the course of the 4 days. I still have two more to get through as well.

I honestly thought I'd make short work of them, but as you said sometimes the idea appeals more.

scream

I'm not much of a chocolate eater at the best of times, and when I do partake it tends to be that gorgeous white chocolate. Yum! My lovely wife bought me a scrumptious white egg this year which was 'painted' with different colours, each different colour being a different flavour. Ate most of it. Just a few remnants left now. And I'll almost certainly nosh them tonight

WittyNameForMe

washiskin wrote: »

Hello fellow elves! Do you put up an Easter tree? I got a present of painted eggs an ceramic bunnies from Switzerland years ago as my sis saw trees in the shop there. I put them away and as per usual I forgot where and my o/h found them on Sunday (16 yrs later:eek:). So I put mine up yesterday.

All our Easter decorations got stored away again today for another year. Easter wreath for the hall door and various singing bunny and eggs along with a basket of Easter egg decorations and Easter trees (yes we have three Easter trees ) are all stored away for another year. Why not celebrate and decorate is my motto

Posy

Easter trees??

Tell me more...

washiskin

Posy wrote: »

Easter trees??

Tell me more...

Ok, hope this works......

WittyNameForMe

Posy wrote: »

Easter trees??

Tell me more...

Usually something along these lines. Mine has little light as well. You can actually get a lot of Easter decorations in lots of the shops now.

Scarinae

If you could pick a superpower for yourself, what would you choose?

gidget

It's got to be Invisibility. Oh the things i could do

Loughc

gidget wrote: »

It's got to be Invisibility. Oh the things i could do

Yea that would have been my pick, either that or time-travel. Hello lotto numbers.

Scarinae

Loughc wrote: »

Yea that would have been my pick, either that or time-travel. Hello lotto numbers.

Honestly I'm surprised you didn't pick the power of SANTA CLAUS :pac:

My choice would be teleportation

Posy

Wait... are you plotting to overthrow Santa!!? :eek:

Toto Wolfcastle

I was watching this earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3jeYUXLS0

How would you improve current snacks or drinks to make them Christmas-themed?

washiskin

I'm surprised that Cadburys have never prppermint barked up a Mint Crisp for the Christmas Season.

Loughc

Today's Question,

When is everyones next holiday? 6.5 weeks to mine! Not that I'm counting

Posy

I'm on mine now!!

Flying to Dubrovnik tomorrow- so the forum's all yours, Loughc!

Loughc

Posy wrote: »

I'm on mine now!!

Flying to Dubrovnik tomorrow- so the forum's all yours, Loughc!

Have a great time!!

It sounds lovely and by no means did I have to google Dubrovnik as everyone knows Dubrovnik (Croatian pronunciation: [dǔbroːʋniːk]) is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea, in the region of Dalmatia.

:P

Toto Wolfcastle

Dubrovnik is supposed to be gorgeous. Have a lovely time.

Have to wait until September for my holiday but we have the Cat Laughs to look forward to in a month so that will be fun.

kitten_k

Heading Ibiza on 23rd May for 10 days. Can't wait.

Took and extra long weekend for the May bank holiday so looking forward to that too.

Scarinae

Does coming home to Ireland count as a holiday? I'll be back for five days in May - it's a bank holiday here in England and I've put an extra day on each end, which will be lovely because when you only have two days at home it's impossible to see everyone!

Otherwise I haven't anything properly planned - I'm looking at going to Kenya at the end of August, but won't be booking anything for a few weeks

Loughc

Scarinae wrote: »

Does coming home to Ireland count as a holiday? I'll be back for five days in May - it's a bank holiday here in England and I've put an extra day on each end, which will be lovely because when you only have two days at home it's impossible to see everyone!

And yes it does count!

washiskin

A couple of days down the county in October if we're lucky.

Toto Wolfcastle

We're almost one bank holiday closer to Christmas!

Today's question: Does anyone have any lovely bank holiday weekend plans? I have none!

Loughc

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

We're almost one bank holiday closer to Christmas!

Today's question: Does anyone have any lovely bank holiday weekend plans? I have none!

My plans are to move enough that people don't think I'm clinically dead :pac:

Been a busy month in work. This weekend will be mostly used to binge on Netflix.

Toto Wolfcastle

Loughc: The sloth of the Christmas forum

Into The Blue

Loughc wrote: »

This weekend will be mostly used to binge on Netflix.

House of Cards!

washiskin

Hope everyone has a lovely Bank Holiday!:):)

Has anyone started thinking what crafts they intend to get up to for the coming Christmas?

Toto Wolfcastle

Topical question: Are you a Eurovision fan?

I love it. I love how mad it is and how rubbish some of the songs are and how funny the thread on Boards about it can be. It's a lot like the Toy Show really.

Loughc

I'm not a big fan of it these days. Used to like it back in the day. my favourite part is still the results. Douze pointe

Scarinae

I liked it a lot more when there were fewer countries in it and they actually announced all the points, even just one or two points - it felt more exciting. Nothing to do with the fact that we used to win all the time, of course

scream

Love it to death. I've got my plans to slob out with my beer and junk(jellies, peanuts, crisps, popcorn etc...) and just take the p!ss like there's no tomorrow. There's just no excuse not to get into the eurovision spirit of things. And of course you can always drink 'til it sounds good, if you're that way inclined, which I am of course :0)