I don’t know about you but the animal I would most associate with Easter is a rabbit, as in the Easter Bunny. I remember being on holiday in Dorset one Easter when our youngest son would have been about 20 months old. We were having breakfast when he looked up and saw the Easter Bunny approaching – that is, a tall man in a rabbit costume. He screamed in terror. The guy at the next table said there was no need for us to apologise – “it scared me, too”.

Be that as it may, it’s a wildlife charity called Elephant Family that is one of the parties behind the 2025 Big Egg Hunt which involves over 100 decorated eggs being scattered all over London. They are each two-foot tall. The other main participant is Clarence Court, an egg producer. (Yes, I do get it that hens are another animal associated with Easter, albeit they do not lay chocolate eggs.) 

The photo on the home page is of all the eggs in Covent Garden earlier this month. The one above is of a work by Dominic Harris called Eclosion. Apart from Covent Garden, other featured locations include the Barbican, Battersea Power Station, Canary Wharf, Marble Arch and the Royal Albert Hall. There is a free app you can download on which to ‘collect’ the eggs between now and when the display ends, on April 27.

One we get to that date, these rather beautiful little sculptures will be auctioned to raise money for Asian wildlife conservation. I would imagine there will be quite a demand for them. And apologies for the heading!…