Easter is early this year, but the weather is looking promising, should you wish to go egg hunting at the weekend. Cadbury have paired with The National Trust once again, to put on over 300 hunts across the country. Use the hunt locator on their site to see where your nearest event is being held.

It just so happened that we decided to take a spin to Mount Stewart today, one of the Northern Irish National Trust properties hosting a hunt. Their festivities run from Friday 23rd until Monday 25th, and for £1 each, your kids can take part in the lake lapping adventure. The parents get quite competitive at things too, as I remember from previous years!

Bunny hadn't visited yet, but we had a nice visit and made a little video to share with you.

Coincidentlly we had planned to make our own treasure hunt for viewers of the Smix Brix YouTube channel. My friend Pamela had told me about an app that uses augmented reality called Aurasma.

How it works is person A takes a photo of say the harp, while standing at the red hand. They add the augmented reality aspect and save to Aurasma's database. Person B will come along, open their Aurasma app and stand where they've been told to stand, and point the screen's searching circles, which hopefully will circle in, then they will have the same augmented reality animation or video pop up on their phone. It's sort of like a trigger to make your device play a fun little gif or character.

The device you are searching with has to be online as it were. A non-sim iPad wouldn't work unless you somehow can connect to wifi or someone's phone's tethering. The video above will show you exactly where to stand, and what to point your device at to view the surprise animations.

So Mount Stewart is a lot of fun this weekend. You may well bump into us again, as we will be back for the Cadbury hunt as usual. also if you haven't been in a while it's worth going to see the house renovations. Touring the grand house is included in the entrance price.

M&S always have amazing, unique Easter eggs that stand out from the rows of branded eggs elsewhere. There are fabulous Frozen and Star Wars eggs, as well as lots of jellies and sweeties for any kids who don't like chocolate. The grown ups' eggs are something special though. The 'egg garden' with butterscotch, raspberry and pistachio flavours was my own pick.

30 eggs for your Easter Sunday afternoon egg hunt

These were our choices to take home. I just love the soft pink chocolate of the Frozen egg.

My Easter egg garden!

You can even eat the little blue flowers

My son's choice, as he's DJ crazy.

I teased you in the title, and yes, M&S have a tweeting Easter egg this year. It doesn't post tweets, but it does chirp like a chick when you open the top. Inside are chick & egg sweets that taste like orange versions of Percy Pigs. Very cute novelty.