What you can (in heaven's name) do with Easter

Easter in lockdown part two. We have walked a bit and the furniture boulevard is only partially open this weekend, so what to do? Eat until you drop, film marathons, and digital dinners. Amayzine gives tips.

1. Do some more DIY
Because you've been looking at that color for a year now and it's getting boring, so Easter is a great weekend to tackle this again. I will definitely be painting the rest of my living room this weekend. Alternating with brunch and drinks of course, you have to keep the balance.

2. Choose a theme
The planes are still mostly grounded, so if you haven't booked a weekend in your own country, I suggest you choose a theme. Carnival, Italy (just like we are this week at Amayzine), tropical or Thailand; it just depends on what you're in the mood for. Eat and dress as if you are there, watch movies or series set there, and set the heating to the right temperature. Thirty degrees in the tropics? A degree warmer in your living room. Not at thirty of course, because that's bad for the world.

3. Organize a pajama weekend
Keep windows and doors closed, close the curtains, and make it one giant long Easter brunch. And you know: with a brunch come bubbles. The dress code is pajamas or joggers, and anyone who dares to wear jeans must open the door every time when Thuisbezorgd comes as a punishment.

4. Do the dinner digitally
Order an Easter package with your friends or family from the same local entrepreneur, start Houseparty or Zoom, and eat together. You support the hospitality industry, and they need you even more now than last year (!) and you can tell your mother that she really has to try the burrata. Just like real.

5. Turn off your phone for a whole day
Yes, I didn't say this would be easy, but since everyone is required to be off on Easter, it seems like a very suitable moment. A day without a phone gives you seas of time. To read a book for example, or to start that one Greek language course that has been waiting for four months (note to self).

And of course, you could go looking for Easter eggs. If you feel like it.