Shrove Tuesday - I didn't know..

I love pancakes, and so Shrove Tuesday has always been one of my favourite days of the year. It is the memories of Shrove Tuesday that make this day so special for me. The memories of getting home from school, opening the door to the wonderful smell of pancakes on the griddle. Mam would have made mountains of them. When I was the only one left at home after all my brothers and sisters had left, it was up to me to eat them, and I didn't waste a crumb!

Then with my own children, I loved preparing them for their coming home from school time, always such a happy time for us all.

Now, even though there is only me, my children have left home, I still make pancakes. They make me happy, the memories, the making of, the tossing, the eating. All glorious.

I'd always known that this is a day to feast before the abstinence of Lent, but the thing I didn't know about Shrove Tuesday, is that it is a day of penitence, to rid your soul of guilt, to be forgiven for your sins, to start anew. So now my Shrove Tuesday is complete and I know its full meaning.

And now for the pancakes....

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