I didn't realise that my parents were such a professional pair of tosse---er, no, I meant how professional you both look tossing those pancakes. Yes, that's what I meant!
Thou undutiful daughter!! I know what you were going to call your parents :- a pair of tosspots !! I suppose you were thinking of my stated intention of pouring us each a sloe gin. Well, you were wrong. On Mama's request we had a glass of madeira apiece instead.
I'm curious. What exactly is a Shrove? Sounds like a deceased Shrew to me but that seems unlikely.
I know it has something to do with the Bible but I can't quite see Jesus making pancakes.
I'd ask the wife as she's on the Deanory Synod and Church Parochial Council and hob nobs with the Bish - but she reckons I'm just a heathen anyroad (how true)...;-)
Shrove : past tense of shrive :to hear a confession from and give absolution to. Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when in the past we all got shriven before Lent, and got rid of all the rich food (in pancakes) that we wouldn't be able to eat during Lent (I've always understood).
Christmas cracker joke :- how many weeks belong to the year? Forty eight. The other four are only Lent. Where's me coat ..........
'Twas a Lentern jest methinks fond brother! I must confess I had thought Lent to be a season of 40 days and 40 nights ensampled by our Lord during his fast in the wilderness. Knowing it is only 28 days makes me only fractionally more likely to undertake the Lent-tide fast in future. I could cerainly do with a leaner, lentern figure!
Hi Crowbard.You're right. I've just been counting it up on the calendar, and it's six weeks and four days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day, which I make 46 days of Lent. I can only plead that the cracker from which I got the joke was printed in China. If I'm to continue using the joke (and it's not much of a joke) I'll have to adjust it accordingly. But "forty five weeks and three days belong to the year. The rest is only Lent" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Does it? Regards, Mike.
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I didn't realise that my parents were such a professional pair of tosse---er, no, I meant how professional you both look tossing those pancakes. Yes, that's what I meant!
night night...
Thou undutiful daughter!! I know what you were going to call your parents :- a pair of tosspots !!
I suppose you were thinking of my stated intention of pouring us each a sloe gin. Well, you were wrong. On Mama's request we had a glass of madeira apiece instead.
So there.
Much love, Pa.
I'm curious. What exactly is a Shrove? Sounds like a deceased Shrew to me but that seems unlikely.
I know it has something to do with the Bible but I can't quite see Jesus making pancakes.
I'd ask the wife as she's on the Deanory Synod and Church Parochial Council and hob nobs with the Bish - but she reckons I'm just a heathen anyroad (how true)...;-)
Shrove : past tense of shrive :to hear a confession from and give absolution to. Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when in the past we all got shriven before Lent, and got rid of all the rich food (in pancakes) that we wouldn't be able to eat during Lent (I've always understood).
Christmas cracker joke :- how many weeks belong to the year? Forty eight. The other four are only Lent.
Where's me coat ..........
'Twas a Lentern jest methinks fond brother!
I must confess I had thought Lent to be a season of 40 days and 40 nights ensampled by our Lord during his fast in the wilderness. Knowing it is only 28 days makes me only fractionally more likely to undertake the Lent-tide fast in future. I could cerainly do with a leaner, lentern figure!
Hi Crowbard.You're right. I've just been counting it up on the calendar, and it's six weeks and four days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day, which I make 46 days of Lent.
I can only plead that the cracker from which I got the joke was printed in China. If I'm to continue using the joke (and it's not much of a joke) I'll have to adjust it accordingly. But "forty five weeks and three days belong to the year. The rest is only Lent" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Does it?
Regards, Mike.
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