Traditionally the ladies would wear their new hats to church on Easter Sunday and the younger girls would wear their Easter bonnets that they made themselves (with help).
Simnel cake is eaten - a heavy fruit cake with a layer of marzipan baked in the middle. On top would be another layer of marzipan and thirteen marzipan balls. Some say these represented those present at Christ's last supper, others say that they represent eggs and new life.
Before the Great War (1914 - 1918) servants would have a rare day off to spend with their own families and would take Simnel cake from 'the Big House'.
Of course we hunt for easter eggs, where chocolate eggs are carefully hidden for the children.
We also decorate fresh eggs. This involoves carefully pricking a hole in both ends of the egg and blowing the contents out. Then the eggs are painted or dyed in pans of vegetable dye. Some people prefer to decorate hard boiled eggs and eat them on their picnics in the glorious British countryside, basking in the Easter sun.
Of course Lent is over so we are free to indulge in all those lovely edible luxuries that we have been doing without.
We don't decorate our homes in the Christmas style at Easter, thankfully.
It is the first Bank Holiday of the year of England and Wales, apart from New Year's Day of course, so Easter is much looked forward to as a time to spend with family.