Easter

[tex]

Re: Easter

So is easter cancelled?... some logistical probs with the usual distribution of easter eggs amongst family members outside of the household. Don't reckon i'll bother this year
....Still, can look forward to watching The ten commandments on telly

[George 1978]

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Not on the same day.

Has anybody here celebrated Eid or Diwali even if (like most people who celebrate Christmas) you don't follow the religions? Some primary schools hold celebrations for them.

My Junior school which had a prominent Muslim population and the school had marked Eid. In fact, a few years back there was some controversy when it coincided with Christmas which briefly made the national news - the school were about to do a nativity play and other Christmas events, and they were pushed aside for the Eid celebrations. The far-right groups were getting excited about it as would be expected. I think that at the end of the day, if two religions have plans for celebrations at the same time then that should mean twice the reason to celebrate life!

They also did Diwali but I think that the difference is that the lights and fireworks (more prominently seen in places like Leicester) nicely fit in quite closely to Guy Fawkes Night almost every year. I had a best friend in Infant school who was Hindu, I think, so I was aware of the culture of that.

[Richard1978]

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Not on the same day.

Has anybody here celebrated Eid or Diwali even if (like most people who celebrate Christmas) you don't follow the religions? Some primary schools hold celebrations for them.

A few years I went to a Diwali festival because my then half Indian girlfriend & her family were going.

[tex]

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The epicentre of Mischief Night is believed to be Leeds but it takes place across West Yorkshire extending into South Yorkshire. It is far less common in North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire with the possible exception of parts of Hull. Leeds residents are known to quote that the nastiest pranks take place in Bradford.

IMO St. Patrick's Day has been hijacked by Guinness.

Seems Hollywood may of taken the idea and just ran with it....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339...1?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Arran]

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Yes, but they don't happen at the same time, do they?

Not on the same day.

Has anybody here celebrated Eid or Diwali even if (like most people who celebrate Christmas) you don't follow the religions? Some primary schools hold celebrations for them.

[George 1978]

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Yes, but they don't happen at the same time, do they?

[Arran]

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The two nationalities who make a big celebration of New Year are the Chinese and the Scottish.

[George 1978]

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IMO St. Patrick's Day has been hijacked by Guinness.

Quite true - it's like how Bells whisky seem to hijack New Year in the 1970s and 1980s, and Coca Cola was rumoured (because of Father Christmas' red coat) originally seemed to hijacked Christmas.

[Arran]

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The epicentre of Mischief Night is believed to be Leeds but it takes place across West Yorkshire extending into South Yorkshire. It is far less common in North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire with the possible exception of parts of Hull. Leeds residents are known to quote that the nastiest pranks take place in Bradford.

IMO St. Patrick's Day has been hijacked by Guinness.

[George 1978]

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We don't get many regional variations when it comes to various annual events but Mischief Night is a curious one, even to a Nottingham person! Apparently, this used to be a national thing centuries ago but in recent times it had only been limited to the north of England - in Liverpool and Leeds, but not London and Leicester. Funnily enough, I was looking on the BBC News website for Mischief Night news stories and all of them were in the north of England - the most southern area mentioned was in Sheffield, I think. Even I only found out about it when listening to one of the northern BBC local radio stations online and wondered what they were going on about.

It's ironic that more people in England celebrate St Patrick's Day than St George's Day - on 17th March, you can't pass a pub without someone drinking Guinness and wearing one of those green felt hats. Black Friday only existed in the past six years or so - you can see why it doesn't fit in well in British culture, but on the other hand, rioting and looting doesn't seem to be alien in this country a la the 2011 riots...

[Arran]

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Today being St George's Day should have been a Bank Holiday as well.

Yes, I agree.

I was recently talking about how Black Friday now seems a bigger celebration than St. George's Day despite it being American and that it didn't exist in Britain in 2000. Even Halloween is now bigger than St. George's Day but it was a minor event back in the 1990s.

In Yorkshire 4th November is Mischief Night or Miggy Night where young teenagers get up to annoying pranks.

There's also St. Andrew's Day / putting up the lights day that I think is a good candidate for a bank holiday as there are none between the August bank holiday and Christmas.

[George 1978]

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Today being St George's Day should have been a Bank Holiday as well.

[George 1978]

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I felt that it would be a waste to spend Easter Monday indoors so I went out for a few hours, testing out my digital radio.

[tex]

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Hottest easter break on record here in Britain this year.....Phew, who would of thunk it

[George 1978]

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I have just looked it up and 2019 is only the second time in Queen Elizabeth II's reign that Easter Sunday has been on her birthday - the first one was in 1957 (and prior to that, it was on 21st April in 1946). The next time will be in 2030, although we might have a different monarch by then as she would be 104.