This week has been a great one for pancake-bingeing and dreaming up weird toppings to go with them.. or maybe that’s just us! We’ve had fun trying to out-do each other with the whackiest combinations on a pancake – try marmite & fruit; bacon & bananas; chocolate & beans; pasta & syrup – and the dog’s always hopeful when we fail to catch them. It’s great to look round the room & see all the various ways everyone enjoys wrapping, rolling, folding, shaping and decorating something as simple as a pancake – there’s so many different ideas on what makes the perfect one! Looking at kids’ science homework study on dough types, this is even reflected all over the world in the huge number of different flours, fats, additives, dairy versions, cooking types and methods that are used to produce what in the end is really a variation on the humble pancake. The history behind this here is traditionally that the pancakes were a way to use up everything in the store cupboard on a big-bang batter feast before the season of fasting time started around March/April.

We’ve also been looking at what we feed ourselves in our minds : coming up with ideas on what we would like to feast on (could be anything – holidays? time together? box set?) and what would be lovely to fast from (alarm clocks? paperwork? sums?).. there’s a popular saying that ‘we are what we eat’ – but that’s only half the sentence. Really, we are what we eat in our minds. What we choose to consume or feed our eyes on, even on our miniature mobile screens, could be part of that process. If we leave our minds half- or whole-empty we’re in danger of an over-the-top diet or mega-fasting!  In fairly recent times, science of the human brain has discovered that we can go through times of working our minds in order to quieten or redirect emotion and thought processes, and those that govern our choice of words to each other. That’s an amazing discovery & reminds of the old proverb about having the control of the mind is to have control of the whole body. Maybe science will discover that we can even have an influence over our wellbeing by being careful what we feed our minds! It sounds like a certainty, if the proverb is to be believed. It can bring a peace to know that feasting our minds on what really fills is to look after our whole self.