Usually we think of delighted children scampering around searching for brightly-coloured eggs and symbolic rabbits hopping with baskets. (Read our advice on organising an Easter egg hunt here.) However though these seem to be modern, they actually originate before the birth of Christianity. The pagan spring festival includes Easter, or…
Are there just too many daffodils in the world? Every March, I ask myself this question as I drive down country lanes near my home in the Midlands. Here and there, the grass verges are punctured by clumps of shouty, yolk-yellow ‘Golden Harvest’, ‘Dutch Master’ or ‘King Alfred’ daffodils. These,…
Hares are surrounded by myth. The hare is an ancient and mystical creature, and its March courtship rituals are 'mad'
