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The Gap WarwickHorticultural &Allotment Society Monday: ComputerCafé - 10:30am-11:30am, £2. For over 55’s. Meetings arenormally held on thethird Tuesday of themonth Call 01926 494200 for dates. By YourSide Stay &PlayToddler atNorthgateMethodistChurchHall,Barrack Street,CV34 Group - 10:30am-12:30pm, free. ArtClub -for over 55’s 2pm- 4TH, starting at 7:30pm. Everyoneiswelcome & refreshmentswillbeserved. £1.50 members/£2 4pm, £3. Zumba Gold-1:30pm-2:30pm, £5. JuniorYouthClub - non-members. 21st April-The Why &How of SavingSeed 4:30pm-6:30pm, £1 member £1.50.non-member. Tuesday: Keep fromVegetables,presentedbyNeilMunro, Hill Close Moving Exercise Group-9:30am-10:30am, £5, forover 55’s. Gardens. See the WHAS website www.whasociety.org for full Prospects Career Advice - 10am-12pm, free. Tai Chi - 11:15am- details of theyear’s events. 12:15pm, £5. Live Life - 1:15pm-3:15pm, free,exc. refreshments, for over 55’s. Yin Yoga - 7pm-8:30pm, £10. Junior Youth Club - Messy Church 4:15pm-6:15pm, Cost as above. Senior YouthClub - 6:15pm- Saturday 2nd April - Woodloes Primary School,Deansway. Messy 8pm. Cost as Juniors. Wednesday: Older PeopleatLunch- Churchisaninformal,relaxed,childfriendlygathering for families 10:30am-1pm, £5 inc. bingo. IAPT - 9am-12:30pm, free. Pilates- run by local churches working together. It featuresgames, 10:30am-11:30am, £6. Thursdays:Tai Chi - 9:30am-10:30am, interactivebible stories,amazingcrafts &songs followedbylunch £5. ZumbaGold - 11am-11:45am,£5. Baby Clinic - 3rd Thursof together.It’s fun &free&for more info &dates visit our Facebook month,9:30am-11:30am, free. DogTraining-7pm-10pm, call page @MessyChurchWoodloes 01926 775591forinfo. Friday: Nifty Over 50 - 9:30am-10:30am, Leamington Shopmobility £4. Knit&Natter-10am-12pm, free. Friday Friends Stay &Play Do you findwalking difficult? LeamingtonShopmobility offers - 10am-11:30am, £1 per child. 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WarwickWI Not sure if WIisfor you? Why not come along toone of our SouthWarwickshire NHS Retirement Fellowship meetings as our guest,tofind outmore. Ourspeakers range We meet at 10am on thesecond Wednesday of themonth in All fromforensicscience to laughter yoga to flower arranging. We Saints Church(offEmscote Road).Coffee andchat followedbya meet at StPaul’s ChurchHall, Friars St.Warwick CV34 4HA at speaker. Allpeople whoused to work in the NHS are welcome. More 7:15pmfor 7:30pm. Weds 15thApril-TriciaJustice willrun a infocallJackie Shaw 01926 492361 quiz &discussionon’HouseholdObjects of the mid-20th century’. We alsohave afullprogramme of clubs including Quaker Community Café books, theatre, film, walking, knit&natterand wine. Allladies welcome More infocan be found at: www.warwickwi.weebly.com If you’dliketoescapetowarmer climes alittlenearertohome, with or call Stephon01926 491316. spring flowers&friendly faces, call in &enjoy Paul’s home-cooked fayre. 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Visitour website at: www.mssociety.org.uk/ We would like to inviteyou to join usonGood Friday, 10th April, leamington forbranchinfo or call us for onetoone contact, advice when Churches in Warwick will join for aWalkofWitnessleading concerning MS, info about local branch activities or general info to aservice in the Market Square at 12:15pm.People will make concerning MS on localrate branch number 01926839247. their waytojoin the walk/processions to oneof5churches at National MSfree Helpline: 0808 800 8000. 11:45am. The churches are: CastleHillBaptist,Castle Hill.North- gate Methodist, BarrackSt. St Mary Immaculate,West St.StPaul’s, Bereavement SupportGroup FriarSt. New Life, FriarSt. Those who do not wish to walk could Every last Tuesday (31st March) of themonth, 1pm -2:30pm at come to the Market Square by 12pmfor the service at 12:15pm. 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RW Edition 127 March-April 2020 Thursday, 05 March 2020 10:36 page 34 MagagYgBeCCyCyanelyaylanoaanctwnak were forbiddentobeeaten duringLent,which couldalsobe whytheybecamecentral to Easter celebrations. However,asspringisthe time of newbirth in nature generally,it is likelythat theidea of giving decorated eggs at this time of year began as apaganone with thecustom of servingpainted or dyedhard-boiledeggsfor EasterOrigins breakfastonEaster morning. So how didEastereggscometo Or the reason whybunnieslay eggs be made of chocolate?The Victorians popularised giving a Easteristhe celebrationof it wasmentionedinthe San decorated cardboard eggfilled Christ’s Resurrection butits FranciscoCall,the harehad with sweets andchocolatesat annual traditionofarabbit becomearabbit: “From Easter.Atthe beginning of the leavingchocolate eggs for Germany –richinweird twentiethcentury,chocolate children seemstobeanideaout traditions–comesthe quaint manufacturers suchasFry’s and of theimaginationofLewis conceit that theweek before Cadburybegan cashinginonthe Carroll.Sohow diditcome Easterrabbits areendowed with idea of marrying thetwo,the about? thepower to layeggs.” formerhavingproducedthe first commercially availablechocolate Although eggs havefeatured But whyahare originally?The Easteregg in 1873. symbolicallyinceremonies harewas once asymbolofthe throughout theworld for sixteenthcentury German There does notseemtobemuch hundredsofyears, thetradition LutheranChurchbecause it was in theway of recordstoshow of eggs givenatEasterseems to believed –perhapsdue to its howthe Easteregg hunt itself havebeenborninEuropeas solitary nature –that it could began but thereisnodoubt that long agoasthe twelfthcentury. reproduce itself without amate they provide alot of funfor children.EvenQueen Victoria The Easter Bunnyinparticular is and wasthereforelikened to the waspartial to an Easter egg said to originateinGermany Virgin Birth. hunt,writing in herdiary when where it wasthe mystical hare, There is anotherpossibility that shewas fourteen:“Mama did notarabbit,who wasthe giver. theideaofanEaster hare came some pretty painted and This hare wasmentionedas fromthe paganworship of ornamented eggs,and we looked early as 1682 in George Franck Eostre, theSaxon goddessof forthem[in KensingtonPalace vonFrankenau’s German book spring, whowas said to have the gardens].” About Easter Eggs. alteredshapeofahare. There willbemanyhunts taking Further afield,inthe USA, Dutch The origin of theEaster eggis placethisEaster, thanks to the immigrants to Pennsylvaniain not certain. Some seeitasa generosityofthe Easter Bunny. the18thcentury were telling symbolofnew birthand theirchildren about Osterhase or thereforethe Resurrection. theEaster Hare. But by thetime Duringthe Middle Ages,eggs By CatherineRose To advertise, call01926 400236or 35 email [email protected]
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