40 days and 40 nights

Officially the Lent season has started and to kick it off was Pancake Day (otherwise known as Shrove Tuesday).

It is such a huge event here in London but I do question if the actual meaning behind it is followed or known by many Brits.

So to celebrate our good Catholic ways we had a pancake feast sharing what would we be giving up for 40 days and 40 nights. 

Yea yea yea it sounds like a title of a teenage movie, but really - what will you be giving up for Lent?