pancake race

I mean the vicar usually comes for the pancake race doesn't he?

For instance a pancake race in Stockton was just what the doctor ordered.

The villagers also hold an annual fancy dress pancake race in the streets.

In Middlesbrough, the whole of a school for children with severe learning difficulties enjoyed a pancake race.

Pancake races have been run across the region to mark Shrove Tuesday.

The most famous pancake race, at Olney in Buckinghamshire, has been held since 1445.

The pancake race remains a relatively common festive tradition in the UK, especially England, even today.

Do keep the press informed of events which provide photo opportunities - Easter bonnet parade, pancake race, the school's celebration of its 50th birthday etc.

The grounds are used by the community for galas, pancake races (on Shrove Tuesday) fairs and weddings.

On Pancake Day, "pancake races" are held in villages and towns across the United Kingdom.

The hotly contested 2013 Rehab Parliamentary Pancake Race will take place on Tuesday 12 February.

This showed the customs that people celebrated on different days of the later autumn and winter, and ended with information about the famous Pancake Race at Olney.

THE WORLD'S longest pancake race visits Darlington next week.

THE world's longest pancake race featuring a larger-than-life lemon Mr Jif flashed through Darlington yesterday.

Charity and school events are organized on Pancake Day: in a "pancake race" each participant carries a pancake in a frying pan.

Every Shrove Tuesday since 1950, the towns of Olney and Liberal, Kansas have competed in the International Pancake Race.

A surviving North Somercotes' tradition is a Pancake Race which takes place annually on Shrove Tuesday at the Birkbeck School & Community Arts College.

The village's annual Pancake Race organised every Shrove Tuesday by the Heath and Reach Women's Institute is a major feature of village life, raising money for charity.

It is a popular tourist destination perhaps best known for the Olney Pancake Race and for the Olney Hymns by William Cowper and John Newton.

In modern times, Olney competes with the town of Liberal, Kansas in the United States for the fastest time in either town and winner of the "International Pancake Race".

The first International Pancake Race was staged between competitors at Olney, Buckinghamshire (which had started the tradition in 1445) in England, and in Liberal, Kansas in the United States.

Pancake races, computer classes, line dancing, choir practice, dancing competitions, classical quartets, Sunrise Stretch with Meg and a quiet chat with the Rev Bill McCrea - goodness, it is so exhausting being old.

You need read no further than the picture captions listed at the beginning of the book to realise what a treat you have in store; Norman Giving An Interview, Norma starts a pancake race, Norma bellringing and - my personal favourite - Norma and John Shop For Bathroom Fittings.

The Rehab UK Parliamentary Pancake Race also takes place every Shrove Tuesday, with teams from the British House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Fourth Estate (press media) battling it out for the title of Parliamentary Pancake Race Champions.