Dinner tonight

[Nick]

Pancake Day tomorrow! 

[Bar Wench]

 

[Barman]

Green Monday on, um Monday like... 

[Nick]

What is Green Monday?

[Snoopy]

 

[Nick]

I looked it up!!

The common term for this day, "Clean Monday," refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting foods. It is sometimes called "Ash Monday," by analogy with Ash Wednesday (the day when the Western Churches begin Lent).

Liturgically, Clean Monday begins on the preceding (Sunday) night,[1] at a special service called Forgiveness Vespers, which culminates with the Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness, at which all present will bow down before one another and ask forgiveness.    In this way, the faithful begin Lent with a clean conscience, with forgiveness, and with renewed Christian love. The entire first week of Great Lent is often referred to as "Clean Week," and it is customary to go to Confession during this week, and to clean the house thoroughly.

Clean Monday is a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoor excursions, the consumption of shellfish and other fasting food (Note: WTF Is fasting food?),[2] and the widespread custom of flying kites. Eating meat, eggs and dairy products is traditionally forbidden to Christians throughout Lent, with fish being eaten only on major feast days, but shellfish is permitted. This has created the tradition of eating elaborate dishes based on seafood (shellfish, molluscs, fish roe etc). Traditionally, it is considered to mark the beginning of the spring season, a notion which was used symbolically in Ivan Bunin's critically acclaimed story, Pure Monday.

So essentially BM hoovers round, he and LL scoff some whelks and then they all go kite flying. Fun Festival!!

Here we eat fried batter 

In New Orleans and Rio millions of people dance naked through the streets for 2 days.

I wish I was in New Orleans 

[Snoopy]

But he said GREEN Monday! 


Had the fool said CLEAN Monday I could have saved you the trouble of looking it up.



And I have no wish to see you dancing ~ naked or otherwise thank you.

[Nick]

He seems confused. He prolly thinks you have to paint your house green or summat 

[Barman]

But he said GREEN Monday! 


Had the fool said CLEAN Monday I could have saved you the trouble of looking it up.



And I have no wish to see you dancing ~ naked or otherwise thank you.

Green Monday = Clean Monday 

Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρά Δευτέρα), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent or (in Cyprus only) Green Monday (actually translated as such), is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic Great Lent. It is a movable feast that occurs at the beginning of the 7th week before Orthodox Easter Sunday.

The common term for this day, "Clean Monday," refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting foods. It is sometimes called "Ash Monday," by analogy with Ash Wednesday (the day when the Western Churches begin Lent). The term is often a misnomer, as only a small subset of Eastern Churches practice the Imposition of Ashes. The Maronite Catholic Church is a notable Eastern rite that employs the use of Ashes on this day.

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[Miss Demeanour]

So what are you going to eat 

[Barman]

So what are you going to eat 

Chips prolly... 

[Nick]

He will deffo burn in hell

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

May well be sooner if the chip pan ends up on fire.

[Barman]

May well be sooner if the chip pan ends up on fire.

Nooooooooo! 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]