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The local supermarket has stocks of chocolate bilbies AND chocolate wombats. I am well stocked for Paganfest on the 14th!

Date: 5 Apr 2006 00:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
And all we getin these parts are PEEPS, bunnies, and maybe the odd chocolate wobblie. Go figure:D.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 19:15 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annvole.livejournal.com
Chocolate wobblie? Do you mean these (odd shaped, heat damaged chocolate bunnies)?
http://community-2.webtv.net/klmerritt2/ChocolateWobblies/index.html

???

Date: 5 Apr 2006 00:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com
What's a bilbie? (Quoth the Aussie-impaired...)

Re: ???

Date: 5 Apr 2006 01:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
http://www.naturebase.net/plants_animals/odd_bilby.html specifically http://www.easterbilby.com.au/ Bilbies are rabbit-like marsupials that have been driven to the verge of extinction by rabbits.

Re: ???

Date: 5 Apr 2006 02:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com
Awww, how cute! Can anyone get in on the "buy a fence panel" project? Do they take PayPal?

Re: ???

Date: 5 Apr 2006 18:58 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annvole.livejournal.com
From that first link it says: "Their burrows go down in a steep spiral to a depth of around two metres". There is an extinct marmot-like animal related to beavers that made spiral tunnels about that deep. Now they are finding fosselized tunnels all over the world that they are saying are made by the same creature... I wonder if some were made by ancient bilbies instead... maybe the beaver-like critters are actually squatters.

Here are some links about the fosselized spiral burrows:
http://annbat.livejournal.com/1695.html#cutid1

Date: 5 Apr 2006 01:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
I only have one lone choccie wombat left in the freezer ... someone needs to deliver me some more :(

Date: 5 Apr 2006 02:21 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Mine was devoured due to melt danger. I still have my stuffed wombat:D.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 03:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
Want chocolate? (http://torakiyoshi.livejournal.com/609416.html?mode=reply)

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 03:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
So... when is Easter?

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 03:17 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
14/4 or something like that.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 03:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
So that one doesn't move, despite the ecclesiatical rules for determining the date?

  • Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox

  • this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon)

  • the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.

Of course, the third point dictates a pretty stringent date, but still. It's not the vernal equinox down yonder.

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 04:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
I just looked on the calendar, and it says 14/4.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 08:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
Pretty odd, Easter happening on a Friday. But then, I'm sure a lot of things on our side of the Equator seem odd to you, too?

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 09:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
It's a 4 day holiday. It's all Easter.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 18:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
So I see!

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 09:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
It's all easter. Starts on Friday, ends on Monday, and in there is Easter Sunday. It's just a designated date for those with traditions to follow once a year. We should celebrate every day Christ rising, not following traditions and fixed dates that follow the moon's phases and the Earth's tilt.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 15:20 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] canisrufus-uk.livejournal.com
I have the Friday, the Monday, and because I'm a civil servant, I get a half day on Thursday too :D

I love my job..... well actually no I don't, but it has it's good points.

Date: 5 Apr 2006 18:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
Ah, I see.

Of course, if you really want to get into it, Easter starts on Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of lenten preparation. Then come's the 40-day fast (44 counting Sundays), which leads up through Holy Week. The start of Holy Week is Palm Sunday, which marks the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem for Passover, then the week begins with the withdrawal to Bethesda (this may or may not have been the time when Jesus resurrected Lazarus), then the return on Maundy Thursday and the initiation of the Communion Meal on the first night of Passover, the arrest and crucifixion the following day, Saturday in the tomb, the Resurrection on Sunday/Monday (depending on which calendar you are following), another fourty day period of celebration, and finally, Ascention, the day when Jesus gave the Great Commission and entered Heaven.

Easter is a very technical holiday!

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 21:44 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
Bear in mind that Passover has to be on Thursday, because it's schedule is related to the Sabbath. So it makes no sense to me why they should ever be off, especially since Judaism uses the same lunar calendar as Roman Ecclesiasticals.

I also have participated in Passover Seders and I greatly enjoyed the correlation between Jewish symbols and Christian. It's not hard to see why Passover was the chosen time of the crucifixion from a faith standpoint.

Meaning, schmeaning. It's fun to look at the historicity. :)

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 6 Apr 2006 03:38 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
Ahh, right, I had forgotten that. The triumphal entry happened on Nisan 13, by the Galilean calendar, though they celebrated passover on Nisan 15 of the Jerusalem calendar, which was a day later than that in Galilee.

Have the best

-=TK

Date: 5 Apr 2006 08:13 (UTC)

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