insideKENT Magazine Issue 25 - April 2014 | Page 137

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A very Happy Easter to you all!

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Way back in dreary weather blighted Jan and
Feb, Easter seemed a distant glimmer of hope for
better brighter spring days, and now, thankfully
it’s just around the corner.
It is very late this year though – Good Friday was
29th March last year, now we are looking 18th
April. It always puzzled me as I was growing up,
how one year we could be basking in early spring
sunshine having the first (and possibly only!)
barbecue of the season and the next year we
could be sitting resolutely looking out the window
at a winter wonderland. I guess the only good
thing about snow in April is it’s pretty short-lived
and has melted before we’ve got the sledge out.
Someone kindly explained to me a while later
that church holidays like Easter are moveable
feasts, and can fall on different dates each year
as they are based on lunar timings. The date of
Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon
following the March equinox. That is about as

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much as I can take in as there’re a lot of other
conditions affecting it, so I prefer to keep it simple
and focus on the glorious March equinox – the
day the clocks go forward and we are into British
Summer Time again! I’m afraid I must’ve missed
some vital info as I was growing up, as I only just
realised they called it equinox because the day
and night are of equal length.
Anyway, as we are anticipating Easter and the
equinox has passed, it seems fair to mention
that this is normally the time of year that people
venture out into their gardens to start tidying up
or repairing things after the ravages of winter,
and after the one we’ve just had, there may be
more than just sweeping up to tackle. You may
be one of the unfortunates who had a fence
come down. In my Feb page we covered a lot
of useful hints and tips, about what to do to avoid
this happening to you and how to choose the
right fence. The link to all that helpful stuff is still
on your local page if you missed it before:
www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk/ashfordlocal

There is also a link on there to take you to the
Fence Calc