Carrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to 'Eastermas' | Amelia Tait

More than a quarter of British adults now buy Easter presents, giving their loved ones not only chocolate but flowers, toys and clothes.

Pop into any high street shop and you will see our current levels of capitalist egg-cess.

John Lewis sells carrot-shaped string lights and bunny-shaped wreaths; for 10 , you can get a snow globe featuring two bunnies in a carrot car.

Amelia Tait is a freelance features writer and mother-of-one.

She says breaking an heirloom even if it is a literal rotten egg is wasteful.

She recommends painting an egg or rolling it down a hill, and gluing fluffy chicks to a bonne.

And, of course, buying your child some chocolate eggs just definitely less than 11.