Having been brought up as a catholic, Easter was very much a...

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    Having been brought up as a catholic, Easter was very much a traditional religious time, not a time for fun and games

    From the beginning of lent, no meat was consumed on Fridays and while we went to church every Sunday during lent also on Wednesday evenings. I was an altar boy for a few years so would serve extra time.

    Good Friday would be go to church in the morning and then the traditional lunch of fish, including Baccala (dried cod) potatoes and chick pea salad dressed in lots of olive and viniger

    To this day mum still calls ahead of lent to remind us not to eat meat on Fridays and we still do the good Friday seafood lunch.

    As us kids grew up and had young children of our own, we would rent a house down South (WA) for the Easter weekend, had some great Easters.

    Now days it's difficalt to get a holiday home down south over Easter, most are booked out 6 months prior and some are booked a year in advance. Also difficalt to organise due to children grown up and with extended families
 
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