So yesterday was Shrove Tuesday, or to give it its more common name – Pancake Day!! And what a great day it is, you can’t beat a day that has an in-built excuse to eat pancakes 
Anyway, apart from eating plenty of pancakes another British tradition on Shrove Tuesday is the pancake race. They happen all over the UK and are great fun. One of the more interesting ones is the Parliamentary Pancake Race which sees teams from the House of Commons, House of Lords, and the Parliamentary Lobby (political journalists) compete for the title. The race is in aid of the brain injury charity Rehab UK and was this year sponsored by the British Lion Eggs.
Yesterday’s race saw three teams compete, with the Media team the reigning champions. It looked like the journalists were set for a second consecutive win, but because BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson pulled up at the last second he was just pipped to the finish line by Lib Dem Lord Redesdale who secured victory for the Lords team!
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3 Comments
February 25, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Awesome. I have never heard of the Pancake race before. How did you manage to integrate the flash applet on a wordpress.com blog?
February 26, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Looks like fun! I’m a hopeless pancake fan anyway, so Shrove Tuesday just gave me an extra opportunity to hog.
February 27, 2009 at 12:50 am
myphotoscout I’m guessing you’re talking about the slideshow feature? My understanding is that wordpress as a rule don’t allow flash applications (which is extremely annoying), however they do allow you to use a few slideshow app’s, you’d have to check the FAQ’s for the full list, but I use slide.com which seems to work really well
Flaneurbanite Yeah i’m exactly the same, but its nice to have that excuse