EASYROME

Ask a person what animal they associate with Easter and chances are it will be a bunny or a chick. For me, it is a mouse, for more reasons than one. When I was nine years old I had a terrible run in with a mouse at Easter time, and now I am far more inclined to indulge in Easter E Cards than Easter eggs.

On Easter Saturday the whole family all pitched in to lay a special table with yellow candles and napkins and tiny fluffy chicks perched on the flower centrepiece. But on the side plates, where usually an Easter egg wrapped in a colourful ribbon would sit, there was nothing!

The entire family had given up chocolate for Lent, so I was consumed with craving and, feeling the anticipation a 40-day abstinence would create. Swinging from a huge branch at the end of our garden one day inspiration struck: I would make trees out of kitchen towel cardboard tubes to which I would attach egg-carton nests, filled with toffee candy and chocolate eggs.

Even though it took several painstaking sessions with coloured tissue card and paint brushes to complete the trees I was delighted to finally place the multi-coloured silver foil eggs on shredded straw.

On Easter Sunday morning, following the service at our pretty local church, milk chocolate fantasies largely displacing prayers, I raced home eager to present the chocolate egg trees at the table in a moment of high drama. Everyone was seated and patiently waiting as I announced a triumphant 'Ta-da' and whisked the cover off my goodies to transport to the table.

But the gasps were not the ones of admiration I had hoped for. The trees were in tatters, the leaves ripped off, the straw tumbling out and the eggs half unwrapped, half-eaten. Fearing them sabotaged I rounded on my brothers who each accused the other, before my father stepped in suggesting a mouse could be the culprit.

Once I had dried my tears and my father had searched in vain for a pink-nosed visitor with chocolate covered whiskers my mother tipped the untouched eggs into cocktail glasses and salvaged the surviving adornments to attach to them. Only after a delicious meal and lots of sympathy did I recover, helped along by the first sweet taste of the much-missed chocolate.

These days I prefer to create Easter treats of a different sort, using my computer mouse to create e cards as Easter gifts for my family. Representing re-birth and new beginnings, Easter is a time of joy to share with friends and family and sending Easter E cards is a fun, fresh way to celebrate this most hopeful of the calendar's holidays.

Easter E cards are quick to preview and just as easy to send. It's as simple as choosing your favourite E card, personalizing and emailing it. By choosing Easter themes of colourful painted eggs, adorable chicks and blossoming flowers, Easter E cards can be a heart-warming greeting to remind a loved one you care about them.

Dom Donaldson is a greetings card expert. Find out more about Easter E Cards and how to celebrate Easter without over indulging in chocolate eggs at Katies Cards

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