HappyEaster
Apr. 9th, 2023 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wateroverstone Happy Easter or whatever festival you celebrate.
I wasn't sure what iwas doing this year as I usually cook for whichever children are home and none are this year; son is visiting eldest daughter in Tokyo and middle daughter has her own household and we haven't had the talk over who'll cook for the special meals which occur during the year.She asked to do Christmas as I was expecting to have moved on the 20th December but we've both ignored Easter until I received a message this morning inviting me to dinner. I'm not sure how I feel about passing the mantle of chief cook and host over as I have always enjoyed hosting these meals and menu planning but I must say that it's a lot easier to turn up and eat and I have passed the family trifle dish on. ThIs is a huge VIctorian bowl which takes a pint of jelly and cake, two pints of custard and two large cartons of whipping cream. I got it from my mother when she gave up being responsible for Christmas and she got it from my grandmother.
I'm refusing to accept that the kids are too big to hunt for Easter eggs in the garden so I hid a couple of LINDT rabbits on my daughter's decking for her and her partner. They are humouring me about this .
Easter in West Cumbria means UppIes and Downies. This is played three times over Easter and is a ruleless ballgame with hundreds of players on each side. No one quite understands why it is allowed to continue as there's damage to properties as the ball is scrummaged across the town centre but even the year it ended up being played in the police carpark in front of the station all the police did was shut the door to keep it out of the police station. The local cinema puts up a warning that Patrons should be careful where they park and not use the usual carparks for the cinema and the organising committee has attached some 'danger people in road UppIes and Downies' signs to lampposts along the main road through the town. Meaningful to locals but not visitors. The game has been played continually including through both World Wars for nearly 200 years and has a mediaeval origin apparently. Injuries are rare, although each match produces a number of lost shoes and trousers and a few unfortunates have drowned as much of the game traditionally takes place in a stream whilst the Downies win by hailing the ball at the harbour so people have swum the ball there in the past. The ball is tossed up about 6:30pm and play continues after dark until one side hails the ball.It is quite common for no one to know where the ball is. I never turn up in person to watch it but I follow the live commentary online from a local newpaper.The Uppies won on Good Friday so the Downies will be extra determined on Tesday's rematch. The lad who won this years match wasn't officially playing as he had a damaged ankle, although this is unconfirmed. The whole thing fascinates me. It's a left over from another world
Some lovely stories were posted for my Chsllenge on the BIggles Forum recently (I'm Kismet there)Iwas especially impressed by the number of potato references some people managed to slip in. There were stories, a poem a potato print picture of a decapod which I particularly liked
https://bigglesforum.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=99&sid=11101aa6aad9fb03517f9aaa69182ad0
HOpe everyone has time off work and is enjoying it
I wasn't sure what iwas doing this year as I usually cook for whichever children are home and none are this year; son is visiting eldest daughter in Tokyo and middle daughter has her own household and we haven't had the talk over who'll cook for the special meals which occur during the year.She asked to do Christmas as I was expecting to have moved on the 20th December but we've both ignored Easter until I received a message this morning inviting me to dinner. I'm not sure how I feel about passing the mantle of chief cook and host over as I have always enjoyed hosting these meals and menu planning but I must say that it's a lot easier to turn up and eat and I have passed the family trifle dish on. ThIs is a huge VIctorian bowl which takes a pint of jelly and cake, two pints of custard and two large cartons of whipping cream. I got it from my mother when she gave up being responsible for Christmas and she got it from my grandmother.
I'm refusing to accept that the kids are too big to hunt for Easter eggs in the garden so I hid a couple of LINDT rabbits on my daughter's decking for her and her partner. They are humouring me about this .
Easter in West Cumbria means UppIes and Downies. This is played three times over Easter and is a ruleless ballgame with hundreds of players on each side. No one quite understands why it is allowed to continue as there's damage to properties as the ball is scrummaged across the town centre but even the year it ended up being played in the police carpark in front of the station all the police did was shut the door to keep it out of the police station. The local cinema puts up a warning that Patrons should be careful where they park and not use the usual carparks for the cinema and the organising committee has attached some 'danger people in road UppIes and Downies' signs to lampposts along the main road through the town. Meaningful to locals but not visitors. The game has been played continually including through both World Wars for nearly 200 years and has a mediaeval origin apparently. Injuries are rare, although each match produces a number of lost shoes and trousers and a few unfortunates have drowned as much of the game traditionally takes place in a stream whilst the Downies win by hailing the ball at the harbour so people have swum the ball there in the past. The ball is tossed up about 6:30pm and play continues after dark until one side hails the ball.It is quite common for no one to know where the ball is. I never turn up in person to watch it but I follow the live commentary online from a local newpaper.The Uppies won on Good Friday so the Downies will be extra determined on Tesday's rematch. The lad who won this years match wasn't officially playing as he had a damaged ankle, although this is unconfirmed. The whole thing fascinates me. It's a left over from another world
Some lovely stories were posted for my Chsllenge on the BIggles Forum recently (I'm Kismet there)Iwas especially impressed by the number of potato references some people managed to slip in. There were stories, a poem a potato print picture of a decapod which I particularly liked
https://bigglesforum.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=99&sid=11101aa6aad9fb03517f9aaa69182ad0
HOpe everyone has time off work and is enjoying it
