The seasonal dark hare brigade known as the ‘Knotted Ears’ have planned a mass mission as in previous years to find and remove all Easter eggs hidden by the Easter Bunny.

Scouts will bound from hiding place to hiding place across the country, following in the wake of the Easter Bunny and his helpers.

On discovery they will leap into action to submit the hidden eggs to a thorough boxing that will crack open the treats and destroy the joy of millions of Easter hopefuls.

Concern has been raised by the Rooster Parliament again that ordinary eggs will be unwittingly targeted, leading to the reduction in fluffy chicks across the Easter period.

The comment from the chicks themselves is ‘Cheep’. Concerned mother hens are running around too panicked to give a quote beyond, ‘Cluck, cluck’.

The Knotted Ears have stated they are not interested in plain hen’s eggs and the Roster Parliament is pecking at nothing.

The Easter Bunny when asked to comment stated that the Knotted Hares are merely slow to recover from their species seasonal medical condition usually at its height in March. Easter Bunny gives his re-assurance that he and his helpers always stock up on excess Easter eggs to compensate for the Knotted Ears attempts to de-rail the spring festival and he doesn’t anticipate any serious problems this year, any more than any other.

The hares are confident that this year they will reap a bumper crop of eggs despite the Bunny’s certainty that they will cause no more disruption than usual.

Easter Bunny has said that the flower fairies, Daffodil, Primrose and Daisey will be on egg duty, guarding the eggs with their usual efficiency and backed by Catkins and Blackthorn. Ducks will also be patrolling the country’s waterways. The Knotted Ears have sensibly, after last years disaster made it quite clear they will not be replacing eggs with basilisk eggs this year.

They have no wish to risk any more of their members being turned to stone.