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Hello all. Easter is fast approaching, so if you’ve  just shed the last of the Christmas pounds off. Well it’s that time to pile them back on an indulge in a mountains worth of chocolate eggs. Yummy!!!!

Staying with the egg theme; on Laskys we are organising our very own Easter egg hunt. Every day from now until the 1st April we will be adding a delicious chocolate egg on a product which will entitle you to 5% off the price of the product when you use the following promo code EASTER5.

So bag yourself an Easter bargain and get hunting around the site. Should you find a tasty egg why not tell everyone where you found it on our Twitter page and spread the love.http://bit.ly/cTMVsH

Here are some more Easter tidbits for you:

The name Easter comes from Eostre, an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess, originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honour.

The most famous decorated Easter eggs were those made by the well-known goldsmith, Peter Carl Faberge. In 1883 the Russian Czar, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie. The first Faberge egg was an egg within an egg. It had an outside shell of platinum and enameled white which opened to reveal a smaller gold egg. The smaller egg, in turn, opened to display a golden chicken and a jeweled replica of the Imperial crown. This special Faberge egg so delighted the Czarina that the Czar promptly ordered the Faberge firm to design further eggs to be delivered every Easter. In later years Nicholas II, Alexander’s son, continued the custom. Fifty-seven eggs were made in all.

In 1878 President Hayes and his wife Lucy officially opened the White House grounds to the children of the area for egg rolling on Easter Monday. The event has been held on the South Lawn ever since, except during World War I and World War II. During the war years the Easter Egg Roll was held at the National Zoo, and other Washington locations.

The Guinness Book of Records holder for the largest Easter egg ever made is the Belgian chocolate producer Guylian who made the chocolate egg with at least 50.000 bars on behalf of the city of St. Niklaas. The egg measured 8.32 metres high . Twenty-six craftsman worked altogether 525 hours to build the egg. They needed 1950 kg of chocolates.

Admiral Roggeveen landed on and named Easter Island on Easter Day 1722.