Whether you have a fancy steerable vehicle or little more than a sheet of plastic beneath your backside, there's only one thing to do on Shrove Tuesday in Finland: sled down hills and then stuff your face with laskiaispulla and pea soup.
The cream buns are now a typically Finnish treat, but when they arrived from Sweden during the 19th century they did not contain cream or jam — just marzipan (almond paste).
Handily, this way of beginning Lent also allows cooks to use up some of the treats they traditionally wouldn't use during the run-up to Easter — and then work off the excess calories by running up, and sledding down, the nearest snowy hill.
This year there's good snow cover through most of the country, with temperatures in the south nudging above freezing.