Wishing you all a very Happy Easter - EASTER SPECIAL - Leominster Meeting Centre
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EASTER SPECIAL
2021
Wishing you all a very
Happy Easter
EASTER CLOSURE DATES
Don’t forget that the centre will be closed on:
Friday 2nd April (Good Friday)
And
Monday 5th April (Bank Holiday)
We will be open again on Tuesday 6th April.
Nothing says Easter quite like nature at her best!
Photo by Ellie Mentry (via Facebook)
EASTER TRADITIONS
EASTER EGGS
A lot of us may chomp on chocolate eggs at Easter, but originally eating eggs was not allowed by church
leaders during the week leading up to Easter. So any eggs laid that week were saved and decorated as Holy
Week eggs that were then given to children as gifts. Victorians adapted the tradition with satin-coloured
cardboard eggs filled with Easter gifts. The first chocolate eggs appeared in France and Germany in the 19 th
Century but they were bitter and hard. As chocolate-making techniques improved, hollow
eggs like the ones we have today were developed. The first commercial chocolate Easter eggs
were launched by Bristol based J Fry & Sons in 1873 and have become a favourite tradition
today.
HOT CROSS BUNS EASTER BONNETS
According to Christian tradition,
the fashion for new bonnets came
These Easter-famous breads can be
thanks to Easter being known as a time
traced back to ancient Egypt, Rome,
and Greece, where they served as for renewal. With the fasting of Lent
symbols of honour toward their over and people keen to mark the
goddesses, according to the Oxford religious occasion, female churchgoers
Companion to Food. Later, these were eager to make and show off their
sweet breads became popular at
new clothes, including hats. So this
Easter, especially in England where
bakers were forbidden to sell spice started the tradition of wearing Easter
breads except on special holidays, like bonnets.
the Friday before Easter. Many
The word "bonnet" is used rather than "hat", as it refers
people believed hot cross buns baked
on Good Friday would never grow to the type of headgear that was popular at the time. But it
mouldy; they were kept as good luck wasn't until the 1870s that the custom of Easter bonnets really
charms hanging in windows, took off thanks to the New York City Easter Parade. This would
accompanied sailors on a voyage, or see women dressed up to the nines parade along Fifth Avenue
buried in piles of grain to ward off in Manhattan to flaunt their new hats. The parade then grew in
rodents. Today, they're mostly
representations of the Christian popularity and in the 1940s up to one million took part. This
symbol of the cross, as well as a was also partly due to the popularity of the 1948 film Easter
sweet, buttery addition to an Easter Parade starring Fred Astaire and Julie Garland.
meal.
The New York parade takes place today with people keen
to show off their new bonnets, although it is a much smaller
affair with around 30,000 people taking part in the parade on
Fifth Avenue. And now the trend is to wear the most outlandish
hat possible and decorate it with model birds, eggs and even
rabbits.
WHERE IN THE WORLD?
Can you identify these iconic Easter traditions from across the world?
Every 10 years this village is home to What is the Queen doing here and on which
probably the world’s most famous day does this event happen?
passion play but where is it?
The house in the background is the clue to where we
Who is this? What is happening and where is it
are but what’s happening?
taking place?
This mad Easter Monday tradition often sees broken bones. What is this, where
does it take place and what’s the prize.
The Big Easter Quiz
1. The first chocolate Easter egg was made in 1873 but by which company?
2. Who provides the voice for Peter Rabbit in the 2018 animated movie?
3. In what Disney film does the inquisitive rabbit Thumper feature?
4. Which of Willy Wonka’s badly behaved guests gets turned into a giant blueberry?
5. Babe is an orphaned pig who wants to be a what?
6. Who is the presenter of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice?
7. What colour is the Teletubby Tinky Winky?
8. Name the beloved pig in E.B White's classic children's novel Charlotte's Web
9. Name the missing bunny rabbit in The Tale of Peter Rabbit: Flopsy, ??????, Cotton-tail,
and Peter
10. What does the rabbit in Lewis Caroll's Alice In Wonderland always carry with him?
11. What happens to the clocks in spring?
12. On what street in New York does the city's traditional Easter parade take place?
13. In Switzerland, people believe a bird delivers Easter treats to children. Can you name
the type of bird?
14. What lyric comes next in this classic Beatles hit: "I am the eggman, They are the egg
men, I am …… ………..."
15. He's Alive became an Easter hit for which country music icon?
16. Who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
17. Where does the annual cheese rolling competition take place?
18. Tangled is based on which Disney princess?
19. Which of these is not a friend of Winnie the Pooh? Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Woody,
Christopher Robin
20. In which ocean is Easter Island?
21. On which New York street does the traditional Easter Parade take place?
22. What would you normally expect to see on the top of a Simnel cake?
23. How much money does the Queen give to pensioners on Maundy Thursday?
24. Which bird lays the largest egg?
25. Nubby Guns is an anagram of a famous cartoon character. Can you name him?
MORE PUZZLES
RIDDLES
1. What kind of lion never roars?
2. What goes up and down but never
moves?
3. What two words when combined, have
the most letters?
4. What can be seen in the middle of
March and April but can’t be seen until
the end of summer?
British Cities Nicknames
Can you identify these British Cities by their
nicknames?
1. City of a Thousand Trades or Venice of the
North
2. Cottonpolis
3. The Toon
4. Steel City
5. Brizzle
6. London of the North
7. City of Perspiring Dreams
8. Chocolate city Can you guess
9. Auld Reekie what is
depicted in this
10. The Granite City
zoomed up
11. The City of Saints photo?
12. Copperopolis
POETRY PLEASE
FUNNY BUNNY
by Grandpa Tucker
Little Easter, the comedienne
bunny,
Tried too hard at being funny.
She juggled and she dropped the eggs
They fell and smashed between her legs.
Poor Easter left the stage in shame
And thought that she might change her name.
But then that bunny read this ad,
"This Sunday we need help real bad."
So Easter Bunny kept her name
And through the years has gained much fame,
When Easter's Sunday comes each year.
She delivers eggs and we all cheer.
Hot Cross Buns TIPS FROM THE EASTER BUNNY
1. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Hot cross buns!
2. There’s no such thing as too much
Hot cross buns!
chocolate
One ha’ penny, two ha’ penny,
3. Some body parts should be floppy
Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters, 4. An Easter bonnet can tame even the
wildest hair
Give them to your sons
One ha’ penny, 5. The grass is always greener in someone
else’s basket
Two ha’ penny,
Hot Cross Buns!
WHAT’S ON AT LEOMINSTER MEETING CENTRE – APRIL 2021
DATE AM PM
Thursday 1st Easter Celebrations Movement and Co-ordination
Friday 2nd Closed Closed
Monday 5th Closed Closed
Tuesday 6th Music quiz Jenga
Wednesday 7th All about birds Movement and Co-ordination
Thursday 8th Bingo Dance with Rachel
Friday 9th Gardening Connect 4
Monday 12th Gardening Jenga
Tuesday 13th Reminisce spring cleaning Movement and Co-ordination
Wednesday 14th Table top games Giant snakes and ladders
Thursday 15th Pubs and Inns Movement and Co-ordination
Friday 16th Dessert Island Discs Dance with Rachel
Monday 19th All about the weather Dance with Rachel
Tuesday 20th Spring poetry and song Movement and Co-ordination
Wednesday 21st Talk on old money Movement and Co-ordination
Thursday 22nd Earth Day (see poster) Bowling
Friday 23rd St George’s Day and Favourite movie
Shakespear’s poetry
Monday 26th What’s in a name? Bowling
Tuesday 27th Music quiz Dance with Rachel
Wednesday 28th Gardening Giant snakes and ladders
Thursday 29th All about food Movement and Co-ordination
Friday 30th Our Own Jazz Festival Cheese game
EASTER CLOSURE
We will be closed for Easter on Friday, 2nd April and Monday, 5th April and back
open on Tuesday 6th April.
During the pandemic, we have been unable to hold our Friends of Leominster
Meeting Centre support meetings, but support is always here. You can ring us during
our normal opening times - Monday to Friday 10.00 am to 3.00pm. Or Contact
Dementia Matters (Herefordshire) Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on:
01432 804480 (new number) and ask to speak to an adviser.
Out and About
In issue 6 I asked if you could guess these spring
locations. Did you get them right?
1. The Priory Church from the Riverside Walk
2. Planters outside Lloyds Bank, Corn Square
3. The Priory Rooms taken from the Riverside
Walk and was the old workhouse
4. Steel arch at the entrance to Riverside Walk
5. Pinsley Bridge looking north
The toilet and piano are to be found outside the
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