Bon temps roulez, mes amis –
It’s Mardi Gras!
No one needs to disrobe, it’s much too cold, we’ve got plenty of beads, (unless you like to disrobe in public and then, it’s between you and your maker.)
Today is also know as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day, which heralds the beginning of fasting in Lent. On this day (so the historians say) there were feasts of pancakes to use up the supplies of fat, butter and eggs… foods that were forbidden during austere Lent. The word ‘shrove‘ is the past tense of the English verb ‘shrive‘ which means to obtain absolution for one’s sins by way of confession and doing penance.
at Olney in Buckinghamshire which has been held since 1445.
In England there are several celebrations on this day but perhaps the best known one is the Pancake Day Race</b
The race came about when a woman cooking pancakes heard the shriving bell summoning her to confession. She ran to church wearing her apron and still holding her frying pan, and thus without knowing it, started a tradition that has lasted for over five hundred years.
Keep flipping them pancakes!
The Haus of Dcaligari 