Has no one else noticed that 'pancake day' (Shrove Tuesday) isn't until 5th March this year?

[exwhyzed]

It just feels wrong.

It can be 23rd April ( Easter Sunday) my sil birthday

My birthday is at the end of February and is during lent almost all the time. There’s been a bit of a run of late Easters recently, because lent started after my birthday 4 or 5 years ago too.

I have after buying all the ingredients and toppings at weekend ready for today what was I thinking

Spectacularly missing the point of shrove Tuesday, that's what.

Now I'm craving pancakes... I might have to make myself one and it's 11.40 here

Aha yes the clue is in the name! Forgot about the Tuesday bit 😀

The latest date Easter can fall on is 26th April. This year it's on 21st so very nearly as late as it can get.

The last time shrove Tuesday was in March was 2003 apparently.

My DD woke up at the crack of dawn yesterday and made us all pancakes before we had to leave, as DH and DS had told her it was Shrove Tuesday. We'd all believed DS who's generally very good with dates. He'd got it wrong as he hadn't realised it changes every year, so was basing it on last year's dates. Still, pancakes.

Oh no, I read the list wrong, it was in 2014!

It’s as it it’s linked to Easter! Who’d a’thunk it?

And I know it’s all just another “event” day, but I did laugh at the concept of going shopping and stocking up for Pancake Day!

Ds1 is not happy. He's never been to school on his birthday before but because Easter is so late he has to this year.
So yes it all seems odd to me.

Easter usually falls in mid April (my brother usually had his birthday during the school holidays when they actually were over Easter) but sometimes it’s late or early April which feels wrong.

Easter is a moveable feast; so it falls when it falls.

I am glad it's late this year as I am going to Vienna at the end of this month, and as it won't be Lent, I can try the last 5 types of cake I haven't yet managed to scoff. Yay!

Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

So it varies from year to year, nothing to do with Hey Zoos!

Well it obviously is to do with "Hey Zoos" as otherwise it would just be the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox wouldn't it? And shrove Tuesday (iirc) is to do with eating all the "nice" stuff before the 40 days/nights of Lent which represents when "Hey Zoos" was in the wilderness.

Or something. But it's definitely to do with Jesus.

Easter was April 24th in 2011 and April 20th in 2014 so being this late isn't unusual.

I always thought it was because of the supposed state of the moon on the day Jesus was crucified.

I noticed a long time ago, as I am going to a Shrove Tuesday carnival. Good that it is not school half-term that day.

My best friend at schools birthday was 5th of March and I can remember it being the same week/day as pancake day so it does happen.

The earliest possible date for Easter is March 22 and the latest possible date is April 25.

According to Google anyway.

We had an American B&B guest who couldn't believe we only have pancakes once a year!

People can have pancakes as often as they like. If they don't have them very often, maybe they don't like them that much, and probably won't bother with them even on pancake day?

We generally don't have pancakes then, but might have them with stew or corned beef hash a couple of times in winter.

I wonder how many times a year your American guests have a roast turkey dinner?

It was late in 2014 as we got married at the end of March, had 3 weeks off then went back to work after Easter.

I wonder how many times a year your American guests have a roast turkey dinner?

Same as us I imagine - we only have roast turkey once a year.

I know we can have pancakes whenever we like, we just don't. I really don't know why

Yes! I googled it yesterday as I was sure it would be soon.

Stupid Easter with its weird moving around.