Today is Pancake Day in the UK. From what I've heard, it's an annual event celebrated the Tuesday before Lent starts. Back in the day, certains foods couldn't be eaten during Lent such as flour and sugar, so the best way to use them up were to cook pancakes. Now they have pancake races where people have to run around flipping pancakes without dropping them. Good fun!
Also met up with a new friend today for Cream Tea. Her name is Betinna and she's a lawyer from Germany. Her boyfriend is a lecturer at one of the colleges here. She's also unemployed for now, and we met last week on the Warwick Castle tour. We exchanged mobile numbers, and decided to meet for afternoon tea at 3 p.m. in the city centre. Cream tea includes a scone, clotted cream, strawberry jam and tea or coffee. I went for coffee with cream and sugar, and Betinna had tea. Clotted cream is like a very thick cream that isn't really sweet, but you spread it on your scone, and then put the jam on top. It has the consistency of soft butter and is quite tasty.
Heading home to the flat soon to make dinner. We're going to cook spinach crepes for dinner so we feel that we're taking part in Pancake Day.
Update: here are some photos of our crepes!
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