I realise I haven't recorded the fact that Easter 'happened'! It was always going to be a challenge to work with two festivals that were only a week apart, but Easter was so huge in the medieval mindset that it seemed to be a must from the very beginning.
In fact, as a festival to interpret in my own way it wasn't as easy as I had imagined. Yes, my research confirms that there would have been a lot of weird (to our eyes) stuff going on at St Andrew's and emotions would certainly have been running high, but I didn't want to get caught up in the Christian devotional frenzy as such. Nor did I feel it was enough to go with the Spring equinox pagan festival thing – a bit obvious, maybe. So????
Well, all I did on the day (Saturday 5 April by the Julian calendar) was to have one of my 'seeing what happens' sessions up at the church. But I did take some eggs with me… I think that whatever theme or feeling is going to emerge will (hopefully) become apparent as I start to put Kalender together.
But right now I'm still finishing off the Palm Sunday edition … nearly there though!
