Easter Eggs

www3.ns.sympatico.ca/amorash/ukregg.html

It may be a little late to start making Ukranian Easter eggs now, but I'm giving you plenty of time to practise before next Easter. This website tells you everything you need to know about the basics of making pysanky (more commonly known as Ukrainian Easter eggs).

Apparently all you need is patience, a steady hand and some supplies, and you will have a beautiful work of art.

It all looks a touch complicated to me - you apply wax to the egg using a stylus (called a kistka), then dip the egg in various coloured dyes.

More ideas for designs can be found at www.cs.unc.edu/yakowenk/pysanky/index.html

Special babies

www.babyworld.co.uk

You'll be able to order a free birthchart when you first visit this site from April 8, for a limited period.

The charts offer an in-depth, four-page analysis of a child, its character and potential career path.

If you are expecting a baby in December 1999 or January 2000 you may be in with a chance to join the Millennium Baby Club.

The club will offer special online antenatal support, plus a discussion forum for Millennium parents to discuss their experiences and offer advice to each other.

Furby hackers

If you have the urge to take a redundant Furby to pieces, then these sites are a must.

The Furby autopsy page at www.phobe.com/furby/index.html and the Hack Furby site at www.homestead.com/hackfurby show you how to take the skin off your Furby and dabble in a bit of reprogramming.

The Hack Furby site also details Furby's Easter Eggs.

In computer terms an Easter Egg is a secret feature which has no other function but to amuse.Evidently if you clap three times and pat his back he'll sing Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star!

This to That

www.thistothat.com

This is a simple, practical guide to finding out which glue to use when sticking two materials together.

Choose your materials, for example metal and wood, press the "Let's Glue" button, and although the site uses American product names, there are many useful pieces of advice on glueing.

Daffodil bus

This Easter weekend you may want to get out and about among the daffodils. If you missed George Wilkinson's daffodil walk in the Evening Press, then you can still get the details from our website (www.thisisyork.co.uk) along with many of George's other walks. The walk in Farndale involves using the Daffodil Bus, timetables for which can be found at www.countrygoer.org/nymoors

Easter Island

www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/sam/chile.htm

If you really want to get away from it all, this is the place to go - from the island you can sail more than 1,900km (1,178miles) in any direction without sighting inhabited land. The Lonely Planet online guide to Chile and Easter Island provides you with all the necessary travel details for this far-flung destination which lies 3700km (2294miles) west of the Chilean mainland.

Easter dating

www.assa.org.au/edm.htmlThis site has nothing to do with romance and everything to do with the date on which Easter Sunday falls. Ronald W Mallen from the Astronomical Society of South Australia has created this site especially for you to work out when Easter Sunday was over the last 300 years and when it will land in the next 300.

Books, music

Both Waterstone's book shops and HMV stores have joined forces this week with Yahoo! to offer free access to the Internet - you can pick up a CD at the stores to load on to your computer.

A combined welcome page will give you access to the Yahoo! UK & Ireland web directory and to the websites of Waterstone's (www.waterstones.co.uk) and HMV (www.hmv.co.uk).

Roll your own

www.happy-easter.com

Roll your own virtual Easter Egg at this special Easter website.Play their eggstra-special game even if it's tipping it down outside, the Easter bunny does all the hard work for you.The site also contains lots of Easter facts, Easter emails and Easter chocolates. You can even paint an egg online.

From our inbox:

"I am trying to find my half-sister, Sally. She was born Sally Richardson in Scarborough in the early 50s. Her mother was Margaret Richardson (nee Cook). Sally would be in her late 40s now. Sally's father, Alan Richardson, was born in Scarborough in 1923 and he was briefly married to Margaret. Alan went off to Canada and subsequently returned to England and married Joan. Alan and Joan were my parents, and I have an older brother David. I met Sally very briefly in 1967 at our home in Sutton Coldfield. Alan Richardson, my father, died in 1986. Alan's brother, Fred Richardson still lives in Scarborough and Alan's sister, Mona, lives in Bridlington. I now live in New York and would love to hear from Sally or anyone who can help me locate her."Neal Richardson (neal.richardson@cwix.com)"I hope you can help me find a friend from the 50s. We were stationed in the Suez Canal Zone in the mid-50s and when I returned in 1956, he went on to Cyprus. He married and moved to York in the late 50s and that is the last I heard of him. His name is Jim or James Kelly and he was in the army RAOC doing his service. My name was Nancy Brewer then and it is now Nancy Scott. I now reside in the US."Nancy Scott (dcswild@aol.com)

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