Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday marks the last day before the 40-day Lent fast in the Christian calendar, but is more widely known nowadays as Pancake Day.
British Expat Newsletter: January 2011
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British Expat Newsletter:
11 June 2008
This week: The Religious Significance of Hair – some of the ways in which hairstyles and the possession or absence of hair make a difference to how holy you’re perceived to be in various belief systems.
British Expat Newsletter:
21 May 2008
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British Expat Newsletter:
2 November 2005
This week: A week of celebration – Diwali, Eid-ul-Fitr, Halloween and Samhain.
British Expat Newsletter:
20 July 2005
This week: Magic – and the place of the supernatural in schools.