Christos Anesti!

By now that should not be news, but Dr RedMedea is Greek and so for her Easter has come a bit later than in the Anglican calendar. On her terrace on Sunday afternoon we were introduced to the custom of egg-smashing, which does require some temporary relaxation of social-distancing regulations. The red-dyed hard-boiled Pasch eggs are knocked together and the holder of the smashed egg has to eat it: that was me, on this occasion. You might have thought that Greeks do seem to like smashing things but in fact this custom was once very widespread and still takes place in bits of England even if I had never encountered it before. Dr RedMedea was disappointed with the dyeing of her eggs but they seemed appropriately livid to the rest of us.