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Panalate Season

Dub Mouse

Winter will so be leaving us, flowers will start to bud, and the trees will show signs of sprouting new leaves, soon it will be time for those little lambs to be bouncing everywhere…. It’s not spring, nope it’s panalate!

Why have I called spring panalate? Well reader, though I love spring and seeing all the signs of flowers starting to bloom, lamb roast dinners etc, I look forward to pancake day and yep Easter or as I call it chocolate egg exchange 🙂 hmmmmm.

PANCAKE DAY (aka as Shrove Tuesday):
Usually takes place on 4th March or round abouts this date in UK. We love pancake day, you can have all sorts of lovely stuff in pancakes such as…. Chocolate, fruit, lemon and sugar, honey. The list is probably endless I imagine. So what is pancake day? Well rather than me explain, have a read of this little link which explains it pretty well – https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pancake-Day/

Those of us who aren’t religious, enjoy pancake day because it’s a good excuse to eat pancakes and well it’s kind of a tradition in the uk 🙂

EASTER:
Most of you who are clued up on these things will know it’s Christian thing, even though it’s taken from a Pagan festival. People who aren’t religious will just know this time of year as chocolate egg exchanging time, a good excuse to eat lots and lots of yummy chocolate 🙂

LAMB ROAST DINNER:
The traditional thing to eat on Easter Sunday is a nice lamb roast dinner! Probably because it’s spring and well there’s plenty of yummy lamb to eat. I love lamb, with loads of mint sauce.

So welcome to panalate season, a season of having pancakes, eating chocolate eggs and lamb roast dinners.

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Choc Choc Chocolate

Dub Mouse

That wonderful sugary brown stuff that melts in your mouth, which comes in many different guises such as a hot one, a cold milky one, on top of things (ooh er), in things (not so er) or wrapped – yes reader I haven’t gone smutty though it could read that way if you engage that dirty mind, but I’m actually on about chocolate.

A sweet wondrous thing that some women will suddenly crave before that annoying monthly period, something that brings pleasure to those who like it (those who don’t are weirdos :-p) or aren’t allergic.

Have you ever tried dog chocolate? I’ll say this one thing – dont. It’s horrid, yes I tried, surely it’s a must when you have a dog? Just to try and see if it’s any different? I can’t describe the taste except its really quite disgusting. In fact reader I dare you to try some and see for yourself.

Body chocolate:
This is another disgusting thing or at least the Ann Summers’ one is. It wasn’t used for the purpose it should of been (things were very boring in the bedroom department with the ex). It was brought as a present from a friend – we used to buy each other cheeky little things for crimbo as a joke. Anyways I tried it – spread a bit on the hand…..yep it’s pretty horrid. Actually the taste was not dissimilar to doggie chocolate thinking about it.

Why does chocolate cause us to be happy when we eat it? (dons lab coat and pretends to be little miss I know science, when in fact I googled but translated it): Basically – It contains stuff like theobromine and phenethylamine (big science words), that have physiological effects on the body. These cause serotonin levels in the brain to rise and so your mood increases to one called happiness (albeit only for a brief time). There are various health benefits but I’ll let you google those (cant do all the work for you).

All in all, chocolate is pretty good for you. It increases your mood along with other benefits, and apparently can be used as a bit of fun 😉 of course everything has a downside which is spots that are always bound to appear a couple of days after eating loads. Oh and don’t forget to try doggie chocolate!!