Happy Easter to you too, Dom, and to everyone! Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are unique holidays here: it is the only time of the year when, for two consecutive days, all shops are shut. Christ's death and resurrection are apparently more significant events than his birth when all the shops remain open!
And a good opportunity for many people to go and chill down at the beach. Happy Easter. BTW Asda, Tesco and Morrison's had sold out of chocolate eggs yesterday, I was late of the mark. I'm going to have to substitute for hard cash to appease my daughter!
No Easter here in China. Instead, the holiday is 'Tomb sweeping day!!!' Al. P.S. Happy Easter everyone.
I remember walking along a street in Singapore years ago with a Singaporean Chinese lady at a time of some sort of holiday or special time. She would not walk anywhere near a certain place and mentioned something about ancestors' spirits or maybe ghosts stealing her spirit. It was all a bit baffling to me and I wonder if it was a similar to the one you mentioned, Al.
Good to see the weather has picked up too, I've told the missus that she no longer has to dress for bed like she is going on a Antarctic trip now
I thought I would pass on a comment that I read on Facebook, concerning the custom amongst the Kapampangans of having themselves crucified, flogged, and so on. A PARÁYÂ or blood sacrifice is an offering to the earth mother, Indûng Tíbuan, during the hottest and driest time of the year, Mál a Aldó (which coincides with the Christian Holy Week), to ensure the fertility of the soil and to call upon Lakandanúm, the god of water, to bring the rains, restore the river (which stops flowing coincidentally on Good Friday, allowing sea water to rush upland) and inundate the flooded plains for planting rice...
