time where there wasn't at least a Cadbury's Creme Egg waiting for
me to devour when I arose to greet the day. I'll just have to pop out later
and buy a choccy egg of some description before they're all sold out - if
it isn't already too late. Of course, for many people, Easter is regarded
and celebrated as the religious occasion which founded their faiths, but
for most of the rest of us it's just an excuse to gorge ourselves on
lots of chocolate and watch a load of old movies on TV.
Once upon a time, it was also a day for a plethora of this country's
cavorting comical chums to indulge in hilarious escapades involving
giant confectionary eggs, which usually dominated the covers of paper
periodicals such as BEANO, DANDY, BEEZER, TOPPER, SPARKY,
BUZZ, BUSTER, WHAM!, SMASH!, POW!, WHIZZER & CHIPS,
WOW, WHOOPEE, MONSTER FUN, SCHOOL FUN, SHIVER &
SHAKE, TV COMIC and countless others I've no doubt neglected to
mention. Today, only one of those weeklies survives, to entertain us
in isolation with the Easter exploits of DENNIS THE MENACE
and his bombastic battalion of Beanotown buddies.
So, in memory of the kind of Easters I remember from my boyhood
giant confectionary eggs, which usually dominated the covers of paper
periodicals such as BEANO, DANDY, BEEZER, TOPPER, SPARKY,
BUZZ, BUSTER, WHAM!, SMASH!, POW!, WHIZZER & CHIPS,
WOW, WHOOPEE, MONSTER FUN, SCHOOL FUN, SHIVER &
SHAKE, TV COMIC and countless others I've no doubt neglected to
mention. Today, only one of those weeklies survives, to entertain us
in isolation with the Easter exploits of DENNIS THE MENACE
and his bombastic battalion of Beanotown buddies.
So, in memory of the kind of Easters I remember from my boyhood