It might be only Good Friday and I might be on the other side of the world to where the rest of my family are but so far the Easter break is the same for me as it always was. Minus a trip to the Royal Easter Show in Sydney that is! When I was a kid Dad always piled us all into the car and we drove down to the ‘weekender’ we had at St Georges Basin near Nowra. Back then it took five hours to drive there from North Manly, we always left at 5.am and I always threw up at the point we reached the Bulli Pass…
Our television viewing for Easter is much the same now as it was back then in the seventies too. Good Friday always saw us sitting down to watch The Sound of Music - my all time favourite film because it was the very first film I ever saw. Dad took me to see it when it first opened in Sydney at the old Mayfair Theatre, I was three years old and have never forgotten sitting in that seat beside dad watching looking up in wonder at the opening scenes of the film. Those first scenes, the aerial shots over Austria, has to be the most remarkable opening sequence of any film ever made. It always seems to be on tv on Good Friday and I never fail to watch it – I have seen this movie well over 50 times to date.
Then on Easter Sunday the film King of Kings starring Jeffrey Hunter was played on Channel Seven…always without fail and he was my very first movie star crush when I first saw this film at the age of seven, and when Mum told me that he had died the year before (in 1969) I cried myself to sleep!
Today, Good Friday, we are more or less housebound anyway as the car has a flat battery and the weather is not good enough to venture out in to walk up the road to buy another – my family of meat-eaters are complaining about the fish dinner I have planned for tonight and I have managed to buy chocolate eggs for everyone but myself. Who cares, I’m going to settle back and get comfy in front of the telly because Julie Andrews is about to start singing 
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