It's Shrove Tuesday (or to put it another way)

It's Pancake Day, yes, it's Pancake Day, it's P...P...P...P...P...P...Pancake Day and across the United Kingdom millions of amateur cooks will be attempting that annual tradition of trying to toss a pancake to that it arrives back in the frying pan with the cooked side on top and the yet to be cooked side on the bottom. Whilst some people can do this, about 95% of the time this happens:

However, that little trouble does not stop a village in Buckinghamshire from making a competition of it. The village of Olney has an annual pancake race which in recent years has grown to become a sort of international pancake version of "Jeux Sans Frontieres" where they compete against the town of Liberal in Kansas. The competition has been going for over sixty years and so far the tally is thirty four wins to Liberal, and twenty five wins to Olney. But for those of you who think that tossing a pancake is not really the way to spend the day and fancy something to give the old muscles a workout, might I suggest that you travel to the town of Atherstone in Warwickshire and announce "I WANT THE BALL!" and then be prepared to barge through thousands of people

and if you think that's bad enough, then remember this. At the same time that is happening in Atherstone, something very similar is happening in Alnwick in Northumberland, Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Sedgefield in County Durham and St. Columub Major in Cornwall. If you're of a feeble frame, best avoid those towns for the next twenty four hours (as that is how long some of those matches can last!)