Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Last Day of Gluttony

In Catholic times, "the Fat Tuesday" was the last day before the forty days of fasting until Easter started.

The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through prayer, doing penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, and self-denial. As the name suggests, one would eat ravenously - preferably seven meals a day - to stand firmly prepared for the 40-day fast. The traditions around the calorie-rich feast day remained even after the rules of fasting disappeared with the Protestant Reformation.

Since it was the last chance before the fast to eat milk, eggs, and white wheat flour, perhaps a dessert in the form of a fixed bun was on the menu.

That is why we Swedes to this day, in one of the most secular countries in the World, stuff ourselves with the delicacies in the picture. There are variations of semlor (sehm-lohr is plural, sehm-la is singular) throughout Scandinavia and in Sweden they go by several different names: 'semlor' in the north, 'fastlagsbullar' in the south, and 'hetvägg' if they are eaten with warm milk and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Here's a recipe for fastlagsbullar in English that I found on the thelocal.se (url)

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Happy Easter 2018

Let us celebrate that Our Lord and Saviour has arisen...

Yeah and let's keep in mind that this is April 1st too, I most certainly did not go religious on you overnight.

Friday, March 31, 2017

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Not Today...

The Easter Egg Hunt at The Land of Rainbows starts tomorrow, April 1, 2017!

Amazing gifts by some of SecondLife's top designers. The gifts contain furniture, decor, clothing, accessories, tattoo's, gadgets and poses!

I would particularly like to direct your attention to the amazingly holy, decorative and beautiful piece of handicraft supplied to the hunt by myself, my master piece, the Easter Candlestick (see picture to the left).

The poster above shows you all the other amazing designers and content creators that are participating!

Join us for a fun round of Easter Egg Hunting! Take this teleport to The Land of Rainbows' Easter Egg Hunt (SLurl).

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

You Had Better Prepare Yourselves

I actually got a very helpful note card from one of the organizers of this event, none less than Mr Kahvy Smith himself.

This young man knows what we lazy bloggers want, so after deleting about 223 excessive exclamation-marks, and all the text in CAPS LOCK (and there was a lot of it, let me assure you), I am now ready to post an on-your-marks-post for this event.

Starting April 1, 2017! Mark your calendars now!

Amazing gifts by some of SecondLife's top designers, the least humble and least talented among all these Giants is The Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm, prince of Cascade Falls etc, etc.

The gifts contain furniture, decor, clothing, accessories, tattoo's, gadgets and poses!

Take a peek at this poster to see all the amazing designers that are participating!

Join us for a fun round of Easter Egg Hunting! Take me to The Land of Rainbows' Easter Egg Hunt (SLurl)

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Content Creators, Listen Up!

I got a request from my friend Kahvy Smith to help, him and his husband Garrett, with this call for content creators and promoting the upcoming Easter Egg Hunt at The Land of Rainbows.

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"Want to promote your product? Your store? Get some free attention and traffic? Keep reading! 

The Land of Rainbows Gay Hangout wants to invite YOU to our annual Easter egg hunt!

Become a participant and let people hunt for your eggs! 

We will be hiding Easter eggs all over our sim and are hoping YOU will help us give out cute gifts to our visitors! Let them search for the eggs! 

What do we offer? 


🐥 A fun and entertaining event for your (potential) customers from april 1 - april 18 (the day after Easter) 

🐥 Entering is Free of charge. You do NOT have to pay anything to join! 

🐥 Well visited destination guide featured sim that draws over 100 unique visitors a week under normal circumstances

🐥 We will list this event in the destination guide (Provided Linden Lab picks up the suggestion, we cannot control that but have been successful in the past.)

🐥 Regular promotion in-world and on social media before and during the event

🐥 Your logo in promotions for the event if you like.

🐥 Full freedom as to what you want to give away (* please see notes below on adult content) 

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Happy Easter 2016

Bock in SecondLife wishes all its readers a wonderful and happy Easter holiday.

May all your eggs be fresh, all your bunnies tender and all your wishes for the holiday come true!
"The Bunny Boys" by Tomais Ashdene
(from left to right, Tomais Ashdene himself, JJ Goodman and Aeon Jiminy)

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Round Up

Fijne verjaardag! Ik denk nog steeds over u en zorg voor u, zelfs als ik nooit in staat zal zijn om weer met u spreken.

Don't blame me for the lousy translation, blame Google translate.

P.S. Ooooppps, this is a week early, but anyway....
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And in other news...


  • Today I start my five (5) day long Easter vacation. No early mornings until Tuesday next week. Yeehaaaaaw!
  • My hearing impaired mother managed to break her hearing aid yesterday. Which means the poor miserable woman will be completely incommunicado by telephone and will not be able to listen to radio or watch television (if the programs don't have subtitles). The good news is that she will hopefully get her hearing aid back on Tuesday.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Easter 2015 - Events

It's the Easter Weekend and lots of events are going on throughout SecondLife. Here are three suggestions based on the kind people who have supplied me with information of their events.

Saturday April 4th


Second Pride is proud to announce that our new Japanese Strolling Gardens are now complete and are open to the public, thanks to the talented diligence of  Jak Calcutt.

Garden visiting hours are Sunday through Saturday, sunrise to sunrise.

Join us this Saturday April 4th for a special Easter Garden party starting at noon.  Wear a festive Easter bonnet and show your second pride.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Second%20Pride/46/98/22  

Sunday April 5th


EASTER Party! April 5 Time: 22.00cet or 2PM SLT
Musical music was a success. We do a play off!
Best in YELLOW / 500l.

Visit our beautiful Off-Broadway theater in 1900-century of settings and drink a glass Absinthe.

Welcome!
DJ: Alfdeeray

Monday April 6th

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Maundy Thursday 2014

As an atheist and a secular Swede, I don't celebrate Easter in a religious way. Nevertheless I still enjoy eating our traditional Easter foods and - most of all - I love the mini-vacation all of us who do not work in emergency services or in the trade sector get.

I am off from work from today through Easter Monday, five whole glorious days, and am going to make the most of it by catching up with my sleep, essential household chores and blogging obligations. Among my blogger-duties the highest on my to-do-list is to watch the keynote speeches by Ebbe Linden and my Philip (i.e. our beloved creator Philip Rosedale) at the recent Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference.

I started off slowly today by sleeping until ten, then having an extremely long breakfast, filing my taxes and paying the Swedish state SEK694 in back taxes.

Paying taxes is actually one of my favorite hobbies, as I still feel most of it goes to worthy causes such as caring for the young, the old and those less fortunate than I am. I much prefer paying taxes and let the state provide me with health care and security than paying exorbitant fees to a privately owned insurance company which will only try to find some loophole to squirm away from fulfilling their obligations toward me if and when I need it.

Have a wonderful Easter holiday everyone!

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Colored Eggs

Eggs are great, for whatever reason you eat them and whether they are painted or not.

Happy holiday!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Knocked Out by the 4th Flu

Sweden has had four different flu-strains this winter which have been wrecking havoc among the population. I have already gone through three of them and was hoping that i would be lucky enough to avoid the fourth one.

Not so, while I was setting my auto-response message on my email at work on Friday - as I am taking a vacation until the Easter holidays - I felt my throat going all sore, the fever mounting in my delicious body and aches starting absolutely everywhere in my body, from head to feet and effecting every organ in between.

I managed to drop in at Benja's and Ryce's wedding yesterday and stay for a short while during the reception afterwards but then I was completely exhausted and had to crash into bed. '

I am blaming the weakness of my immune system on Philip Linden for the shocking news that he has deserted me into the hands of people I do not know or trust, with the possible exception of Mitch Kapor..

There will be no posts for a while until I feel much better! Take care all my darlings  and hope to see you soon!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Easter Greetings 2012

I didn't sleep well last night, so I was rather uninspired when I was going to do my Easter card this year. Luckily my buddy Butch Diavolo teleported me over to his new house to check out what he had accomplished.

When I saw the beautiful sofa from Black Karbon I went for that and snapped this shot. You should count yourself extremely lucky that you were not exposed to my bushy little bunny tail... just saying!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Egg Hunt at *Virtually Gorgeous*

I got an IM from my sweet friend Carol Pixelmaid, fashion designer and owner of the soon-to-be-famous *Virtually Gorgeous* label and store in SecondLife.
"Hey Bock, I am having a little Mini Easter Egg Hunt at my store, and I wondered if you would pass the note on to your friends, or alts, the outfit is cute and the hunt is easy."
If I were you I would not believe the easy part of that message (I still remember with dread the time I spent five hours in Vampi´s shop trying to find another "easy" egg), but here are some more instructions for you.
"*Virtually Gorgeous* is having a mini Easter Egg hunt, throughout the month of April.
The Hunt consists of, 6 eggs, each containing a gift, that make up the "Sexy Chick Look" The Yellow Easter Eggs are hidden around the store! *Virtually Gorgeous* Main Store (SLurl) 
Make sure you join in the Easter Fun, and get yours!
Hugs, Carol Pixelmaid <3"
When you get to the store inworld, please note that Carol also has a store with furniture and more cool stuff next to the fashion store. I am hoping that,you have already noticed that I have a link to Carol´s store blog Virtually Gorgeous in my blogroll.

Ughhh this reminds me I need to start thinking about making Easter cards, with my blushing bride Iendi craving all my intention that will be difficult... Why are women so difficult to satisfy, I wonder?

UPDATE April 2, 2012: I can now proudly report that I concluded the egg hunt yesterday. It took me about an hour to find the first one, but after that - when I had figured out how the sneaky little Carol was thinking - I found all six eggs in about 20 minutes. It was fun!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Priceless or Clueless?

This is reposted from the excellent blog Joe.My.God. I almost fell of my chair from laughing so hard.

People cannot really be this clueless, or can they?

The Den at Easter

I went to The Den at Erotes late yesterday evening (my time).

Due to the ongoing Easter Holidays the club had less guest than usual but nonetheless DJ Butch Diavolo, club owner Chade and host Bacchus made sure that those of us that had come had a good time, they always do.

Here are a few sample pictures from yesterdays party.

DJ Butch, as always without footwear
Chade showing off his new haircut and moves

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Easter Party 2010 in Swedish SL today - Saturday April 3rd!

The Swedish SL Easter Party will start at 11 am SLT/PST. Everyone is welcome! WE WILL ALL BE THERE!


EVENT PROGRAM

11 am SLT - Pre-party with DJ Apollon
12 pm (noon) SLT - Wildstar Writer on stage
12.45 pm SLT - Surprise
1 pm SLT - Bara Jonson on stage
2 pm SLT - Prizes are awarded to the Best in Easter outfit! 3.000 LD in the pott!
2 pm SLT - DJ Frostland
3 pm SLT - DJ Lucien
...til the late hours... (Well Lucien is American, so who knows...)

Prizes for Best in Easter outfits - yellow, bunnies, feathers or whatever Easter inspired prankyness you come up with! Total craziness is ENCOURAGED. (Yours truly has been persuaded to head the jury so GO FOR IT!!)

Best female - 500 LD
Best male - 500 LD
Best couple (straight/gay/whatever) - 500 LD each
Best in CRAZY EASTER - 1.000 LD

This broomstick takes you directly to the PARTY! Hop on it!

WELCOME!
The Swedish Event Group

Thursday, April 1, 2010

The Swedish Easter hunt is on!


We are hunting from April 1st - April 11th.

The locations of the hunt differs. It can be a full sim or just a smaller parcel. Although most are shops or stores some can also be a place where someone lives.

Sometimes the eggs are well hidden and sometimes not. There should be a hint if the egg is more than 30 meters from where you land.

This is not the kind of hunt where you get a landmark for the next place to go in the egg. We do it a bit differently.

There are TWO first locations in the hunt.
Start location 1 - Swedish Institute
Start location 2 - Vampi´s shop at OrmDricka

You can go to either of these start locations to get the complete note card, which includes all the 19 places where the Easter eggs can be found, by clicking on the board which has the picture at the top of this post!

The Easter eggs all look the same.

When you find the eggs just right click them and buy for 0 LD or - in some cases - only click to get the contents. The eggs contain original content only (i.e. NO shitty overused freebies...)!

Good luck!



My humblest excuses to the Queen of all Queens, Ms PetGirl Bergman (lovingly known as "dronningen"), for my delay in posting this!