This campaign is far from over!
Although Easter (22nd March) and my anti-Easter “Alice in Wonderland Day" (5th April) is over, this campaign certainly isn’t, we need more voices and signatures to make an official March 22nd Western Easter a reality four our generation!
When I watched the “Earliest Orthodox Easter” adaptation of Alice in Wonderland from that all important year (2010), I later realised that, ironically, that Alan Rickman (one of my listed actors who never saw an April 25th Easter) was in it too!
Operating on a personal liturgical calendar two weeks ahead of everyone else has been tough, as I have had to actively prepare for it months in advance by purchasing all of those diaries and having to manually edit them to let them know I was “two weeks ahead” of them was costly and emotionally draining, so was having to fit into the world of everyone else celebrating at a different time to myself, so this two week discrepancy between my personal calendar and the official has been an emotional toll I won’t ever have to face again.
By launching this very unique and creative campaign, I have shared my very emotional story about just how difficult it can be to “suffer” from autism and neurodiversity and how certain fixations can affect me as a neurodivergent individual. It has been a way to share my very unique story and to promote my local autism club, The Larch, in Kingston-upon-Thames for adults with autism without a learning disability.
Although Alice in Wonderland Day is over, this campaign is highly relevant for 2027 because it points out exactly just how I’m predicting the massive five week gap to plan out and the issues it will cause for the Orthodox community. Again, its not the five week date gap itself that’s the problem here, its the lack of recognition for Orthodox Christians (and other minority groups) here in the UK and other countries such as the Republic of Ireland, the USA, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia and Orthodox Christians residing in these countries have already launched many existing similar campaigns on this platform, which I fully support.
Back to my envy for Orthodox Christians and their calendar, if they can see their earliest date this century, we should not be barred from the same opportunity and this could become a reality if we keep getting more signatures.
Contrary to popular belief, many people alive today HAVE seen the earliest possible Easter date and it is/has ALREADY BEEN A REALITY for the millions of Orthodox Christians who are currently walking the Earth, so a one-off Easter date change (even just in the UK) would be better than facing the impossible wait for 2285!
As a “March 22nd” Easter has technically already occurred on the Julian Orthodox calendar this century (2010) – so such a move for 2043 or 2054 is not impossible and as already mentioned in my previous updates, I am no longer targeting the years 2037 or 2048 for the proposed date change because Orthodox Easter coincides on those Sundays, so the 2037 and 2048 Western Easter dates will remain unaltered.
I urge you (all my UK supporters) to raise this issue and contact local MPs and keep sharing my campaign on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Nextdoor and other platforms so we can address this further and so this can eventually get mentioned in parliament. I understand change.org is a private platform and campaigns with over 150,000 do not get debated in parliament but I urge all of you to contact your local MPs to get this issue raised further.
Creating this deeply personal and poignant campaign has been a way to get my story heard about my unique Easter celebration, and sharing my story on the platform has made me fell less “alone” in celebrating on March 22nd, 2026!
If any of you get the chance in the year 2037 (11 years from now), please book a holiday to the Land of the Extreme Easter Dates and join the Greeks in celebrating their second-earliest Easter!