An early 'happy Mother's Day' but only for those mothers in the UK! In Spain Dia de la Madre is celebrated on the first Sunday in May, not that it helps anyone because son Mat lives in Paris - and the French celebration for Fête des Meres is on the last Sunday in May. Confusing.
The only reason we know that it is Mothering Sunday, is because we were watching something on the television, the adverts came on - chocolate, perfume, special meal deals - all for Mothers Day. Had a quick look at google for dates and the first thing I read said Mothering Sunday is the 4th Sunday in Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday the day after pancake day - I know it's not called pancake day really, it's Shrove Tuesday - but that didn't help as we missed that. No pancakes this year.
So I am going to make a diary note on my computer for next year so I don't miss it, we don't watch much tv at all and it was pure luck that we saw those adverts.
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