Pancake Blog

I'm writing this right in the middle of Just A Card's Indie Week 2018. I have a streaming cold. My feet are on a hot water bottle and I have a veritable sea of used tissues surrounding me. I feel like partially warmed up poop. My eyes are stinging tired. So why, I hear you [...]

I love pancakes. It’s my birthday tradition that we always go out for breakfast pancakes. BUT my business name doesn’t comes from my love of pancakes, it comes from a quote from a book called The Third Policeman. When things go awry in the story, one of the characters has a habit of musing on it with quips like [...]

It's been a few months now, and our hand-written greeting card service is proving a very popular addition here at Pancake HQ. Since introducing the service, I have written cards in Spanish, Finnish, French, hand-drawn the emoji poop, called someone a bum face, sent numerous buckets of massive hugs, and drawn around 7,856 "XXX's"! (and [...]

"If everyone who'd complimented our beautiful gallery had bought just a card we'd still be open"When Sarah Hamilton (pictured left), creator of the Just A Card Campaign, read this quote by shopkeepers who'd recently closed their gallery, she knew it was time to take action. Sarah explains "I thought - enough is enough - we [...]

Today I'm leaving my part-time job of the last 4 years to work FULL TIME on The Curious Pancake! I'm insanely excited! Since starting this business in our cold, damp dining room 7 years ago, I've been looking forward to this day for years! It's exciting, it's terrifying, it's nerve-wracking, it's...... oohh posh Prosecco on [...]