Today Is...Easter Sunday

According to my more religious friends, Easter is the highlight of the Christian calendar which surprises me as i always thought it would be Christmas and the birth of Jesus rather than the time when he died.
Easter is a bunch of confusing religious days all lumped together in a week so it's Palm Sunday, Good Friday and then culminating in Easter Sunday but then Easter has always been the poor relation to the more showy Christmas but whether you are an atheist or religious, Easter is the time to revel in the love of friends and family and friends and finding some peace and time for reflection on what Easter really represents, chocolate.
I don't know where it says in the Bible that we should celebrate the Crucifixion of God's only son by eating our own weight in chocolate but that's the way Christians have decided to do it and who are we to argue.
What the Easter holidays need is to look at what is going on a Christmas and 'borrow' some of the ideas because apart from Chocolate Eggs, Easter doesn't really grip the imagination like Christmas does, the Easter Bunny gets knocked into a Crooked Hat when set against Father Christmas and the only Easter pop song i can think of is U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and that's not even about Easter, just something that happened on Easter Day.  
For some reason, nobody has managed to come up with a good Easter song, i can't think of one tune that tells us that the Easter Bunny is coming to town or how we wish it could be Easter Sunday everyday.
Easter is all about religion in the way that Christmas isn't, a time where Jesus and his gang are cheerfully ignored and the focus is on snowmen and reindeer with red noses leading sleighs, Easter has none of that, it is all about the religion and it will stay the poor relation until a songwriter manages to find a way to make a catchy ditty about crucifixion and resurrection.
It doesn't help that Easter keeps shifting about on the calendar, Easter is the day Jesus apparently rose from the dead but unlike Christmas nobody seems to be able to pin a date on it which is confusing as we are unsure when we get the 4 day weekend although if he stayed out of sight a bit longer we could have had an even longer Bank Holiday weekend.
If Religion is your thing then this Easter put on a hat made of thorns, slam some Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the CD player and enjoy the long weekend and all that chocolate filling the lower shelf of your refrigerator and the rest of us will bemoan the fact that he didn't keep his head down to at least the following Wednesday.