Just your run of the mill Good Friday. It’s a bank holiday so the weather is not at its best but not as bad as it was during the week. No ship wrecks today, just slow traffic winding over Penmaenrhos and through Colwyn Bay just like the Good Fridays of my short trousered days of childhood.
Good Fridays were invented by The National Trust. And all over the country, people will be perusing through zoo, castle and stately home gift shops admiring the must-have tat and crap. The first ice-creams of the season will be consumed by people wrapped up warmly because that’s what you do at Easter. Granddads and Grandmas will be taken for the day out and the children will be reminded not to comment on the smell of wee-wee in the car.
People who don’t live near the sea come and look at it for the first time this year. If you’ve wondered what the people who live near the sea do on Good Friday, well we go and look at the places where the people who’ve come to look at the sea live. Actually I made that bit up. The brutally frank truth is that we go to Marks & Spencer to look at Per-Una garments waiting outside t changing rooms listening to the sound of ripping fabric, snapping elastic shrieks and gasps and watching the procession of ladies of a certain age going in and out with armfuls of sensible looking items.
Then it’s down to the M&S food hall to stock up on essential oddments from the food hall that when all totted up cost more than the weekly shop itself.
Essential oddments include double cream, out of season strawberries and M&S hot cross buns. They’re not just hot cross buns they’re M&.... well you can guess what they are.
Home now in front of the fire with hot cross buns that aren’t just hot cross buns, with dripping butter, Classic FM, and Mrs Beswick senior who as I type is reading and quoting from her favourite book and pointing pontificating fingers at all and sundry. The fact that she doesn’t understand a word of Welsh makes it all the more remarkable really.
Perhaps another hot cross bun might give us a bit of peace and a moment to gather our thoughts...
Essential oddments include double cream, out of season strawberries and M&S hot cross buns. They’re not just hot cross buns they’re M&.... well you can guess what they are.
Home now in front of the fire with hot cross buns that aren’t just hot cross buns, with dripping butter, Classic FM, and Mrs Beswick senior who as I type is reading and quoting from her favourite book and pointing pontificating fingers at all and sundry. The fact that she doesn’t understand a word of Welsh makes it all the more remarkable really.
Perhaps another hot cross bun might give us a bit of peace and a moment to gather our thoughts...
Vrolijk paasdagen, pasg hapus and happy easter!
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