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Thank you to Avril Finlayson Smith, another former
Edinburgh resident now living in Australia, who left a message in the
EdinPhoto guest book, leaving a 'Happy Easter' message.
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Easter Eggs
Starbank Park
"How different things are these days, from
when I was young and lived in Edinburgh. On Easter Sunday, after church
and lunch, we always had a visit to Starbank Park, down near to Newhaven.
My, it was always so very busy, with so many
youngsters rolling their Easter Eggs and not the Chocolate ones either -
hard boiled real eggs, many decorated as best as our parents could do,
with whatever, and yet we were thrilled to bit's!!!"
Today
"I've just seen a picture in our local paper,
where the youngster's were let loose to collect as many Choc Eggs as they
could collect in quite a sizeable bucket they were given. They could
hardly have had a clear bit of grass to walk upon as the ground was just
covered in Choc Eggs.
I just wonder if they were as happy and
satisfied with a bucket full, as we were with our one real hard boiled
egg, don't think so somehow!! Still it was nice to see lot's of
lovely smiling faces, but sad though so many, these days, don't know what
the rolled egg is all about, and the Easter Story."
Avril Finlayson Smith, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia:
Message posted in EdinPhoto guestbook, April 24, 2011
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