UK members......what is Mothering Day?

[gjwilson]

I noticed this on my calender today..yesterday now,and was just wondering what that might be.

[cranberry]

It's the day when we get into deep sh.. trouble if we forget to remind our mothers how much we love them. A card and flowers or chocolates are the usual methods.

Luckily, with the help of my Palm I remembered this year.

Cranberry

[pepper]

Luckily I remembered thanks to all the adverts on TV, there must have been alot cos my brother even remembered http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

I think it goes back a few hundred years to when girls from poor families went off to work at the local manor house. They were apparantly allowed a Sunday off to go and see their mums.

[Graham]

Pepper is right, the girls 'in service' were often far from home, so they were given one Sunday per year to 'go and see mum', mothering Sunday.

"and you tell the kids today....."

G

[Warthog]

so it's like American "Mother's Day"

Warthog

[Jonty]

Yes, it is like your Mothers Day. The actual name we call the day is Mothering Sunday, I've never heard it called Mothering Day though. Its commonly called Mothers Day over here, but I still prefer Mothering Sunday. Its quite difficult in fact to buy a card saying Mothering Sunday.

[Jonty]

Just a thought here, why do we in the UK call our mothers 'mum' and in the US it is 'mom'? Yet 'dad' is the same??

[Graham]

Cad,

You aint seen my mum!!

G http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[dafremen]

Perhaps its because ded and dud just didn't go over too well with English fathers? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

8) Daffy

[BFlurie]

It's where all the Queen mother's loyal subjects gather 'round her for a gigantic group-hug. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[justy]

Hehe, the least popular guy in the world!!!

Guess who forgot mothers day, not for my own mother, Trish deals with that. But for Trish herself. What an ars@hole I am!!!

No seriously, I forgot. I didn't realise until about 4pm that afternoon. As jonty says, its quite hard to find a card on sunday, but its much harder to find an excuse to go out on your own and get one!

Ooops, much begging and sucking up too, afterwards I was just about forgiven.

I'll really make it up to her later, promise.

All the best, Justy.

[welsh wizard]

why don't we call fathers day fathering day?
BTW
my Mam and Da is how mummy and daddy were always called http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

also mothers day and fathers day are different down under not the same days as the UK same with Queens birthday last time I was in OZ I was there for Queens birthday, after we had already had a holiday in NZ for QB.

WW

[Warthog]

hehe good question http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog