Easter Bank Holiday!!!

Woooo!  It's been a long time coming!  Such a long time in the UK between New Year's Day & our next public holiday - the 4 day Easter weekend, yay!  (At least US has MLK Day & Presidents Day to break it up a bit!)

You doing something/anything nice for it?  Just relaxing?  Nothing on at all & want some commiseration?  Tell us! 

Happy Easter weekend, everyone!  And enjoy all the choccies (if that's your thing!).  Cadbury creme eggs...mmmmmm.

Oh I saw this brownie recipe & thought OMG that looks good (but I love love love Creme Eggs):



Ok, some may see that & think 'bluergh!'  But I'd love it. 

No bank holiday here but I'm taking Friday off. DS has to work the whole weekend!  Been looking for a recipe for bunny-shaped buns that I used to make. Will avoid Cream Eggs like the plague!

No bank holiday here but I'm taking Friday off. DS has to work the whole weekend!  Been looking for a recipe for bunny-shaped buns that I used to make. Will avoid Cream Eggs like the plague!

Gosh you don't even get Good Friday off?  I used to get Good Friday off where I worked in the US, because I think the stock market/federal government is closed that day at the least!  Sheesh!

My mom hated Creme Eggs too - lol!

I'm working Friday, Sunday and Monday, but don't cry for me; weekends and holidays pay double time!  Woo!  Hoo!   

Not doing a damned thing except possibly also avoiding creme egg like the plague. Anything that looks that much like a real egg inside ... It ain't right.

Not doing a damned thing except possibly also avoiding creme egg like the plague. Anything that looks that much like a real egg inside ... It ain't right.

Amen!

I'm going to eat cinnamon buns on Sunday morning. That's about the extent of my plans at the moment. 

Send your creme eggs in my direction!  I've hardly had any this year and I love them.  Someone brought mini eggs into work today and I may have gorged a little  

I'm working tomorrow but have Monday off.  We'll go to DH's parents on Sunday for a roast dinner, and Monday I think I'll just kick back.  It depends on the weather.  

PS Mrs Robinson--despite my love for creme eggs, I think those brownies might be too much for me!

We'll be checking out the weather down there, historyenne - so you'd better arrange it right! 

Yes those brownies look very sweet for sure. Might be a bit 'sickly' as my MIL is fond of saying - like American desserts, and sweetened whipped cream... 

What Easter chocolates do people like, if you dare blaspheme the holy Creme Eggs? 

MIL gives us a chocolate Easter egg/Easter chocolates every year - this year it's Thorntons (it's been G&B in years past).  But I have my secret stash of creme eggs & DH doesn't like them so they're all for me me me! 

I added a Creme Egg poll! 

I like the Reese's peanut butter eggs! That and York Peppermint Patties, though really the only change is that they put them in pastel wrappers. I just like an excuse to eat peppermint patties. 

We're not doing a whole lot, unfortunately. Hubby's family doesn't do Easter. We're out for coffee and an adventure with a friend today. Sunday will be quiet but I will have some chocolate. Monday we will be heading to London for a few days, so Monday will be spent doing the train and coach thing.

I'm looking forward to next Easter. Not only because I have missed my family get togethers (with parents and siblings, and the extended family Easter), but because I have missed a lot of the US Easter candy we can't seem to get here. Still, I have Cadbury eggs and other chocolate, so I am mostly content.

Really looking forward to this weekend... no work till Tuesday, for a start!

Today, Friday; Got my new car stereo fitted and went to Lupe Pintos.  Probably going to go somewhere else for a drive with HB to blast tunes... been without music in my car for 2 weeks and it's been killing me!  We'll go to the pub tonight... Pictish Alchemist ale is on in our local.

Tomorrow, HB and 7 of our friends are getting a train out to Musselburgh to go to a really good pub out there, which usually has on some Tempest, Magic Rock, and Fyne ales.

Sunday... probably just a long lie, chocolate-eating, and beer drinking.

Monday... no idea yet, but unless I get a better offer, I may need to stay in and do some housework and laundry, and then go for a couple of pints in the evening.

Hubby bought a 12 box of Creme Eggs on Monday for his DS and me to share. I am trying to be very good and only have a couple.....or 4.....

Hubby doesn't really do Easter, and I don't care one way or another. Still, I'm going to do a turkey on Sunday, with some nice sides. That will be the extent of it. DH will work this weekend (he works from home), but probably just a few hours each day.

. Might be a bit 'sickly' as my MIL is fond of saying - like American desserts, and sweetened whipped cream... 

Ha!  You tell her I said there are plenty of 'sickly' British deserts and sweets.  That horrible British cake icing is just one example.

We just got back from a pre-Easter weekend break, hubby had to drive a bunch of students to the Manchester airport and that's pretty much an all-day affair.  I stayed home and had my hair done.  Nothing planned for tomorrow.  We may visit our friends in Masham on Monday.

It's nice  having off, I'm pretty sure I worked Good Friday last year (we are open, but my manager did it this year) and the Monday.  This year we don't have to open on the Monday as we never make much money on a bank holiday Monday.

I like the Reese's peanut butter eggs! That and York Peppermint Patties, though really the only change is that they put them in pastel wrappers. I just like an excuse to eat peppermint patties. 

SO JEALOUS! I LOVE those two things....yummmmm