Shrove Tuesday Pancakes with a Little Vice

Shrove Tuesday heralds the start of Lent, where temptations come in all flavours. Patience is a virtue, they say. I’m short on virtue and long on vices, especially during Lent. Despite years of practice, my virtue has never lasted 40 days and 40 nights. Chocolate, cake and in my later years, Cosmopolitan cocktails, have broken my best intentions.