When I was at school many moons ago my favourite hymn at Easter was " There was a Green Hill far away" -probably because it sounded like farming and I wanted to be a proper farmer so I sang it with great gusto and probably very much out of tune.I still sing out of tune today so that hasn't changed. We rolled hard boiled eggs that had been boiled in cochineal and had funny faces one them and if we were lucky got some chocolate eggs which were ate very sparingly in the coming weeks but that was 50 years ago and how things have changed. Now we not only have Chocolate eggs in every shape and form but there are Easter cards,Easter trees and decorations and Easter ornaments. Where have the Easter bonnets gone?.But some things don't change - On the farm things carry on as normal with little lambs being born -we hope there is not too much snow on the way. The birds are pairing up and the catkins are out. This morning I saw a pair of curlews digging in the soft earth to find food,a duck and drake swimming up the beck and a pair of partridges scurrying down our drive. They come every year to make a nest and hatch their young.It is nice to know somethings never change - nature carries on from year to year whatever the trends and fashions and they cost only time to seek them out. Happy Easter.
