1. The traditional Shrove Tuesday football match is to move its goalposts 100 yards downstream.

2. Another name for Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Day .

3. In Britain, pancakes are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday - shrove is from the verb shrive, or confess.

4. At Olney, a small town in England, Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Race Day.

5. It was Shrove Tuesday.

6. It's Shrove Tuesday so that can only mean one thing: Pancake making.

7. Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday.

8. One of the invited guests observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of vehicles.

9. In 1445, a woman in Olney was late to church on Shrove Tuesday.