Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to those who are still with us
Also Happy Mothers Day to those who are now just memories but not forgotten

Well said PeterP. My mum died when I was 19 in 1969 and there isn't a day that goes by when I don't think of her.

Mother's Day is a consumerist invention, Im glad my wife and I taught our two children not to get sucked in by these gimmicks.
We never had them Christened either because that's another con and they have carried on the belief and never bothered christening our grandchildren.

You don't have to get sucked in to any of these things. It is possible to celebrate these occasions without doing what everyone else does.
Each to their own.

Happy mother's day to all our Mothers here. I'm so glad us Mother's are appreciated. And I for one have been. I'm also being treated to a meal with my family later. So to all the miserable so and so's. Enjoy your day anyway.

Anybody being offered a meal today should tell them that is paying for it to do it all tomorrow, and donate the money they will have saved to a battered mothers charity.

I think I might just pass, on your suggestion, thank you. There's enough misery in this world as it is. Why don't you stop all your travelling and donate a much larger amount to the war in the Ukraine.

The Princess of Wales has said nature has been her family's "sanctuary" over the past year, in a special message for Mother's Day.
See Kates not saying she is being taken out for a poor overpriced meal, she is happy to being out for a walk around her estate.
You could do the same around your estate, start at the top of Norley Hall Ave then across Montrose fields and back up City Road to Pem.

When I was a child there was no such thing as Mother’s Day, it was called Mothering Sunday and much more to do with a church celebration of motherhood. Granted, there were flowers given but nothing like it is today.

I remember it being called mothering Sunday.
And as far as I'm there were no expensive gifts exchanged!

As you quite rightly stated, Anne, it was more of a church celebration where the mothers and children would celebrate with a church service.

You are both quite right about mothering Sunday.
But like any other celebration it has been commercialised. It is still usually flowers that most mothers receive though. And gifts have replaced some of those because of the rip off prices.

Mick. Get real. The Princess of Wales has no need to be taken out for a meal. Don't they have their very own chefs on site.They also have the nicest of estates to wonder around in too. So no comparisons are there. Not that I'm ashamed of living on Norley Hall for many a happy year. Two things you have wrong. I never lived at the top of Norley Ave. And I have not lived there for quite a number of years now.

Wandering where to Wonder next? Wunderbar!

Didnt say you ever did live at the top of Norley I said you could start off your walk around your estate there.

Yes you did. Sorry. My mistake.

Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday, Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.

Shhhhhh! You'll upset the muslims. Let's ban it!

It wouldn't bother some people if it was banned. After all Mothering Sunday is a Christian celebration. I believe that all cultures should be able to celebrate their religion but not ever at the expense of others.

Do the ethics not celebrate Mothers Day. If not they are not all day selling flowers at a vast profit for Mothers Day

Ethically so, Peter!