Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday aka Mardi Gras Shrove Tuesday is once again upon us and everyone will be stocking up on flour, eggs, milk to make their runny batter and have a gluttonous sugary feast before being shriven of these excesses in diet as well as in life. As a child, I was brought…
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Shrove Tuesday
The pagans knew how to party! They marked every festival with mirth and merriment but above all food. Food playing a central part to their festivities. So it isn’t really surprising that the Christians adopted this ethos before embarking upon a period of abstinence and denial. Throughout the 40 days of Lent, people are called…
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