Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on ...
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The Power of Music
It was Noel Coward who said “Strange how potent cheap music is.” Someone else once commented that music is the soundtrack of your life. At any given moment, hearing a familiar or favourite song can t ...
It’s Pancake Day! Which one will be your favourite…
Savoury Pancakes with Spinach, Leeks, Ham and Cheese Serves 4 Ingredients 110g plain flour Pinch salt 2 large eggs 200ml milk 75ml water 2 tbsp melted butter Butter for greasing 3 leeks, trimmed, halv ...
How old?
I recently attended (yet another) funeral. A friend, who did not know the deceased, asked me how old he had been. I wasn’t sure, so said “about our age”. “Oh, well, then he was ...