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- Tekel Towers 1st Team
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Easter Sunday
Do families still follow the Easter tradition of rolling eggs in places like Den o' Mains?
Another tradition was planting tatties in garden or allotment on this day.
Both are probably lost in the mists of time......
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- scarpia
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Re: Easter Sunday
I always got dragged off to Kirrie for the egg rolling thing - invariably a freezing cold wind blasting down from the mountains plus heavy rain showers - all so I could chuck a hard boiled egg down some (animal urine soaked) hill then eat it 
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Hopefully this sort of child cruelty has now been abolished.
- Billy_Hainey
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Re: Easter Sunday
Dinna honestly ken aboot the Den O' Main now Leedsy. Eh used to go when I was a bairn, coz I grew up in Kirkton, but that was in the 60s, but no sure if anybody goes now. Den O' Mains has hardly any water in it now since the Coonsil buried the Gelly Burn in a tunnel.
Camperdoon Park has been popular for a about 20 years now. The Coonsil charge ye £3 to park and £1 to get in, but they do put on entertainment, music, jugglers, clowns.
My kids have flown the nest now, but we used to take them to Reekie Linn. If ye want a roller-coaster ride for your chocolate egg, I'd recommend the slope oe the Backwater Dam. Superb except if you overdo it like my wife used to. On a couple oe occasions she managed to launch her egg we such force, it ended up goin right into the water culvert never to be seen again.
- Andy
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Re: Easter Sunday
We used to go to Monikie Park when I was a bairn to roll our eggs but that was because we all lived in tenements and it was a full day out, almost like a holiday, that was the mid eighties by the way.
Now we all go to my mum's to roll eggs, there was 19 of us today, full sesh and a brilliant family day, eggs hidden in the backies, rolling eggs, loads of bevie and family, pure teckle.
- Tek
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Re: Easter Sunday
Painted some boiled eggs with the bairn earlier. Great fun.
Left the rolling them down the hill bit but as the weathers minging.
- lifesanocean
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Re: Easter Sunday
Yeah, my wee ones always paint and roll eggs. Weather was minging so we never got to a park though.
Too much commotion