Housekeeping … 0620 BST … cunning plan is to resume hostilities around 1330 today with our chaps’ and any chapesses’ incoming, plus a few other items, then a film, then music including at least one jazz track, then back to full-on posting approaching evening. This morning, for me, involves personal contact around the west and a short service of sorts.

Wishing you all a wonderful Easter Day … or Resurrection Day … or choc eggs and bunnies day … or even Brit bank holiday … however you commemorate it, may you stay safe and well through these iconic few days.

This below was saved about 5 a.m. BST, Sunday, posted on X by Malcolm Roberts, Queensland, Senator for One Nation downunder, which shows that the cultural underpinning for the west is well summed up … yes, it is the rolling away of the stone which was the first scene to greet those coming to the tomb and was also the first Easter reference I saw upon logging in just now.

Whichever way you observe today and Malcolm Roberts quoted this:

“He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” — Matthew 28:6

… or you can go the egg route (sidebar) or whatever … it certainly set the cat among the pigeons from that point forward, around AD33, even to the dating of our current era, plus many political scribes are noting, on this 2026 day, that events are moving in an apocalyptic direction, millions around the world are flocking to churches still not burnt down by the baddies.

And so, thoughts and prayers for readers and the suffering out there. See you in the next post around 1330.