Well, reading other people's diaries this morning it sounds as if most people did something about Pancake Day last night.

I didn't, because I'd already organised to have an expensive Chinese meal with the PuTTY team in celebration of having managed to get a release out, and this Tuesday had been free for everyone so I booked it before realising it was Shrove Tuesday. We did the best we could, though, by ordering a double quantity of pancakes with the crispy duck :-)

Sometimes I think I really must get better at noticing this sort of generally-significant calendar event in advance. I'm terrible at bank holidays, as well, although that usually works out in my favour since the extra day of weekend tends to come as a nice surprise which I haven't already booked hectic social events to fill, so I get to spend it actually resting. And in this case I haven't really lost out because ceb's party this weekend will have pancakes anyway (and not being a Lent subscriber it isn't too late for me). But I'd at least like to arrange not to feel silly when I forget this sort of thing…