Meekster is coming...

Ya' can tell - Easter Creme Eggs (available for a limited time) are now on the shelves. Chocolate bunnies, colourful egg-painting kits, the promise of spring - with its natural fever-pitched 'spring-cleaning' rites (woe the poor husbands who are on the receiving end of the honey-do list!) Oh how well is the season to be rejoiced! But, I think we do it all for the wrong reasons. It is not for the glorious feasting of chocolate. It is not for the joy of re-doing the house, or even the joy of shopping for new clothes. It is not the renewing of the earth into its multi-coloured change from drab brown. It is not from the promise of planting dead things and watching them come alive... or is it?