Happy Easter to all and to all a good night!

Last time I checked it wasn't Easter yet. In fact, last time I checked Easter was a long, long way away. Okay, maybe it's in April but that's still a good quarter of the year. Three months. Thirteen weeks. So  why the fuck eff are we already seeing Easter bunnies on display? I went to my local shops on Friday night and the supermarket had chocolate eggs and hot cross buns already on the shelves. Which shelves? Why, the ones right next to the discounted Christmas stock, of course.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about preparation for religious/consumerist holidays - I start buying Christmas presents in the January sales - but why do we need to start buying Easter stuff when the summer school holidays haven't even finished? When I was younger Christmas and Easter were great (the only two days of the year where it's considered normal to eat chocolate for breakfast) but I think the fact that they came at the start of school holidays contributed greatly to that. And then I walked fifteen miles in the snow in bare feet, but I digress. Having Easter eggs on sale when you haven't used up the gift cards you got for Christmas yet just seems wrong. And it's not like a multinational corporation to use the influence of a religious holiday for evil/commercial gain at all.

It's also mightily frustrating when one has decided to skip the lolly aisle and stick to the fruit and veg section so as not to be tempted and there's a massive end display right next to the celery. Seriously peoples, don't you get that I have given up chocolate for a month and I am very easily led astray? Where's the love?

I would like it to go on record that I did not buy any chocolate (even though I really, really, really, really, really, really wanted to) but I may have bought an icy pole. Chocolate subsitution win!