Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
NI Life & Style Hop, hop, hop to shops
So is anyone else getting the uneasy feeling that Easter is becoming the new Christmas? In the same way Santa’s sleigh skidmarks into shops before the Halloween witches have even packed up their broomsticks, the Easter Bunny hops his way into our lives just as St Valentine is deflating all those heart balloons. It seems there is always something we should be preparing for...and spending money on. We have all splashed our hard-earned cash on Christmas decorations and the majority of us feel pressured into adding to our collections every year. We accept this. We don’t consider it strange. What would be strange is if we didn’t fill our houses with fairylights, tinsel and a dying tree. (Forgive my Bah Humbugness, it’s April).
It’s just a pity we can only have these items on display for a few weeks in the year having spent so much on them. Thankfully the same can’t be said about (the majority) of Easter decorations. I mean, floopy-eared bunnies and everything associated with them are cute all year round. Surely the interior gods won’t mind if we indulge in a a chickenshaped biscuit in September or if there’s a carrot-covered butter dish on the dinner table every other day of the year. And who wouldn’t want to eat their boiled eggs from a tweet litle bird cup of a Saturday morning and a tea towel with a picture of a rabbit on a bike will surely make the washing up that little bit easier. So by all means fiill your house with Easter faff as, after all, a reindeer is just for Christmas but a bunny is for all year round.