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Pancake Day Races

By Chris | January 31st, 2008 | Add a Comment »

Tuesday 5 February is Shrove Tuesday, otherwise known as Pancake Day in the UK. Its the day before the start of Lent, a traditional 40 day period of fasting before Easter. In olden days observant Christians would give up eating things like meat, fish, fats, eggs, and milk during Lent and used up any of [...]

 

Pancake Day

By Chris | February 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, otherwise known as Pancake Day in the UK. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, traditionally the start of 40 days of fasting in Christianity. Shrove comes from the old Anglo-Saxon term shriven, where Christians went to confession and were absolved of their sins before [...]