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The Week: 25th to 31st of March
Ukrainian Easter egg from yevshan.com Well it’s technically Easter here, but as I’m Ukrainian and we follow the Julian calendar, Easter for us this year doesn’t happen until May. Today is not a big...
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The Week 29th April – 5th May
By JustEggsquisite Христос воскрес! Today is Ukrainian (and other countries’) Easter. NOT necessarily Orthodox Easter (I’m Ukrainian Catholic) – a common (and very irritating for people like me)...
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The Week: 14th – 20th April
Ukrainian Easter eggs. Happy Easter… Overshadowed as it is for my family and friends by Russia’s increasing invasion and theft of Ukraine (and the world’s pathetic response). Easter is a really huge...
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The Week: 21st – 27th March
Happy Easter! This is not “our” Easter; Ukrainian Catholic (and Orthodox) Easter is on the first of May. I will be in my grandmother’s village in Ukraine on the day, so I doubt I’ll be getting a post...
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Easter Weekend
I know it doesn’t mean much more than time off work for most people in the West these days, but Easter is a big deal in Ukrainian culture. We will be doing the full celebration tomorrow (but the person...
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Good Friday
I’m going to be at the coast for a number of days and won’t be using the internet (though I do have some scheduled posts). Enjoy your long weekend!
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Easter Book Craft
Feeling creative? JHBookFoldPatterns sells downloadable book craft patterns for Easter as well as other occasions.
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Good Friday – again!
It’s Good Friday all over again for those who follow the old calendar, and in many ways this feels like the real one – Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Easter traditions are more complex than those...
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Happy Second Easter!
This weekend is Easter for Ukrainians. It’s a big deal in Ukrainian culture. So, if you have any chocolate left, you now have an excuse to eat it!
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The Week: 2nd – 8th April
Autumn leaves and blue skies in Canberra during our current heatwave. This week feels more like a month! I started it in Broulee on the New South Wales South Coast, spent most of it in the bizarre...
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The Week: 15th – 21st April
Mid-autumn in Canberra, and it’s still summer dress weather. And I saw on the news that it is snowing on the other side of the country! What is going on? A random ibis at the cemetery in Queanbeyan on...
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Oh, Sri Lanka…
I’m sorry that this is supposed to be a book blog, but it has recently become a blog about so many other things. However, I just CAN’T ignore the terror attacks in Sri Lanka today – Easter Sunday....
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The Week 22nd – 28th April
Happy Easter – again! (I know – those aren’t pysanky in the bowl, but at least the embroidery is from Ukraine!) The way the calendar works this year, it’s all too much in one go. Four days of Easter a...
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