Easter Weather

Looking back at my blog for Easter 2011 (which was a little later in the year) I see that the weather was so warm and sunny that we had a family lunch at the top[ of the garden and spent the afternoon out of doors playing Rummy.  What a difference to this year!  Fairly bright today but still cold.  We are promised a slight rise in temperature by the weekend.  I hope it warms up by the following weekend.

Harking back to my recollections of Sunday School I found that the children enjoyed the Bible stories if they could act them.  I found a file with a lot of little sketches I had written for them.  There was always a Miss Bossy Boots who would sort out the cast.  They particularly liked stories with animals in them and there are a lot in the Bible.  On one Palm Sunday a disciple was dispatched to the man at the Gate to ask to borrow a donkey.  He had to say "The Lord has need of him"  Miss Bossy Boots cast herself as the donkey but her little brother would not let go of her hand so Jesus went to Jerusalem with two donkeys that day.  They liked Daniel in the lion's den when they could roar and another favourite was the story of Noah.   They would line up, two by two, choosing an animal.  The bears, say, would go first, round Noah into the Ark (a row of chairs) and appear at the other end of the queue as a pair of giraffes (not having an inexhaustable number of children)  This could go on for a long time until I appeared as the dove because it was time for a prayer before going home.  Happy days.