Pancake Day.

Its that day of the year again when local TV stations used to run items featuring women running through the streets of some village or another tossing their pancakes into the sky and, if they were lucky, catching them with their pans before the pancakes made a nasty mess in the street or, connected with some poor souls head. I bet TV producers love pancake day as it provides easy material to fill a slow news day.

As far as I can remember, Silverton has no great tradition of pancake racing. I do not ever recall hordes of pancake racers heading down Fore Street tossing their wares with gay abandon. Silvertonians, it seems, prefer to keep their pancake pleasures behind closed doors, hopefully with a nice drop of lemon juice and a dollop of sugar. Probably pancake racing is frowned upon by the health and safety police these days anyway. Enjoy your pancakes and toss one for me whilst you are at it.