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If you’re looking for a thoughtful gift to mark the upcoming Easter festivities, then you’ll need to do a little planning and research into suitable activities and themes. Let’s take a look at the festival and see what they might be. Why do we Celebrate Easter? Though Easter owes its existence (and its name) to earlier pre-Christian pagan cultures, it is a Christian occasion. Specifically, it celebrates Jesus’s death, resurrection and ascent into heaven. Jesus was crucified, but then rose...

With Easter just around the corner, households across the country will be frantically searching for ways to make their living space a little more seasonally appropriate. Christmas decorations might involve a default set of standards to fall back on – you’re expected to secure a tree, some tinsel, some mistletoe and some additional decorative pieces to help tie the whole household together. But no such standards exist for the other major Christian festival. Consequently, we’re required to exercise our creative...

Easter in Scotland shares much in common with the festival in other countries. There are, however, a number of Easter traditions which those outside of Scotland may never have heard of. In this article we’ll examine how the Scots celebrate Easter, with a particular focus on what makes an Easter especially Scottish. Food As in most Christian countries, the main meal on Easter Sunday consists of roast lamb. There are several reasons for this – some religious, some more practical....