Ah, Easter! The schools are already closed. All the offices and factories and other workplaces will start gong the same way tomorrow as people head off to river, field and beach. We love they way that Easter seems such a bridge between winter and summer. We well remember once (1994) driving down to the West Country in Good Friday sleet. While taking our leave the following Monday under the high bright skies which seemed to promise the summer to come. Which is why Easter, or something like it has been celebrated in the northern hemisphere for thousands of years before Christianity or Judaism, those traditional sources of Easter custom and lore.
However, Easter also brings duties. Among them are visiting people, cooking and above all, gardening. Gardening is about much much more than just keeping everything tidy, or even making nice things grow, Treated right, your garden can be like your gymnasium, especially for those of us who are perhaps not quite so vigorous as we were say twenty or forty years ago. You bend, you stretch, you move around to find things, all in the fresh air. A long day of this, combined with sparse rations, can burn a surprising amount of calories. And all with a visible result at the end!
It is to these ends that we must now devote ourselves, gentle readers. May you and all your friends and families enjoy a pleasant break, and we will see you, back at our mutual intellectual task, shortly thereafter.
THE EDITORS
Learning, Science and Society 