Sid the Easter Bunny from Outer Space
You may have spotted my absence over the past week or so. Sincere apologies. Easter in the Thornber household is always slightly chaotic and finding a quiet corner to pen my blog is near impossible, especially with one niece or another requesting use of my Mac. Even the two year old was in on the act requesting (demanding) “Pat-A-Cake” to be played over and over again on the cbeebies website.
Family Easters are fantastic yet exhausting. We’re not exactly the quietest bunch, and we have an opinion or few between us all. Add wine to the mix at dinner times and the noise level is probably equivalent to that of a large aircraft taking off. Ear plugs are recommended!
But we pull off our family events in style (our own style admittedly) and have a great time. The piece d’resistance has to be the annual Easter Egg hunt. It’s been going on a few years and each time new hiding places must be found and rhyming clues written. Thankfully this year I stopped my mum in her tracks as she seemed to be creating the hunt before I arrived. This is not a one woman show, it’s a joint effort – but as I missed one Easter two years ago I’ve had to fight to get back in the organisation of it all! After making a song and dance about being included, I then proceeded to be busy during my first 24 hours in Southport. I found myself trying to devise poems at almost midnight on Saturday as I struggled to keep my eyes open. Things got silly. The Easter Bunny became Sid, I decided he was from outer space and at one point he was threatened with death. My mum and sister vetoed all such suggestions and we ended up with more child friendly rhymes.
Despite this the Easter Egg Hunt went off without a hitch and the girls were made up with the copious amount of chocolate collected. We also went on a lovely family walk over the sand dunes to find the pond we used to go to when I was a kid. The pond is still there (once you’ve been battered and scratched by the overgrown path) but there weren’t any frogspawn or tadpoles in sight. Sad times.
The weekend was also filled with traditional Southport seaside amusement… Morning tea & toasted teacakes, the pier, the beach, sausage and chips from The Sandgrounder (best chippy in town!), a 99 icecream, the hall of mirrors etc… Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!
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