I know a lot of people give things up for lent and none of them are even christian let alone catholic! Oh and isn't today the first day of lent so they should've not even seen the writer's block question! (I definitely couldn't give up the internet for that long!!)

Last time I did anything lent-related was in high school when a group of my (all non believer) friends gave up chocolate and I don't think any of us made it the whole 40 days, I failed because I had to eat up the last of some cereal with chocolate bits in!

I remember my crazy christian flatmate at uni saying that fasting during daylight hours at the weekend was a traditional thing but then she spent a whole Saturday sitting at the kitchen table and I definitely saw her eating (tough to abstain with people making meals in front of you!).