my 7yr old son asked me to get some flowers for mum,which i did ,my local tesco had there every day flowers yet there mothers day flowers cost more with there fancy packaging.
why cant we move mothers day so mums cant have some nice flowers or fruit from the plot,rather than all these brought in flowers.
not every mum wants chocs(although they like them)
i know we dont need mothers day to tell the m there best, why not have it later so mum can have some home grown flowers
Looking at the price of flowers today i agree with you . It is scandalous the prices they are charging shame on them.
Doesn't help for this year, phlips66 but next year get your maybe 8ry old son to plant some tete a tete daffodil bulbs as a special home grown pressie that she can put back in the garden ;)
Ninny
PS. Not a fan of cut flowers so have requested a bag of potting on compost here ;D
You could always have two. It is later over here May 9th this year.XX Jeannine
Quote from: Jeannine on March 12, 2010, 22:32:09
You could always have two. It is later over here May 9th this year.XX Jeannine
Not more shopping!!
The 'effing Christmas stuff will be in after Whitsun!!
Hold on one little mo' telboy. Easter and Father's day before that!
You get the wheelbarrow award for the earliest mention of Christmas :o ;D
Ninny
Fathers Day is June over here...ladies first as usual. I think Grandparents day follow that.
XX Jeannine
Quote from: Ninnyscrops. on March 12, 2010, 22:43:36
Hold on one little mo' telboy. Easter and Father's day before that!
You get the wheelbarrow award for the earliest mention of Christmas :o ;D
Ninny
And there'll be National Holidays for when the sun shines/temperatures above 10'C/ no rain for more than 2 days!!!
Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday is always the 4th Sunday in Lent.
:)
It is correctly Mothering Sunday and had a real meaning.
Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Grandparents Day, Aunties Day etc have been made up and are cheap and nasty commercial days imported from America and have no real significance.
Try and buy a Mothering Sunday card.
When I was much younger we used to pick a posy of violets and primroses on our way home from Sunday School.
I can't understand who arranged Mothers Day on the same day as the first race of the F1 season.
"I can't understand who arranged Mothers Day on the same day as the first race of the F1 season."
Rugby ?
Quote from: . on March 13, 2010, 01:24:57
"I can't understand who arranged Mothers Day on the same day as the first race of the F1 season."
Rugby ?
And decent diggin weather down the lottie.
Flowers have as little connection to Mothering Sunday as Holly Wreaths and mistletoe have to the Nativity.
The young domestic servants traditionally, in the middle of lent (a time of fasting) took home to their mother, (possibly on their half day of a month) a cake. Debate if you like whether the servant made the cake or the cook did, whether it was a simnel cake or not.
Poverty in those days in the households where the young servant had to be 'put into service' meant the cake would help the mother out with food for the family. Where a bunch of daffodils would have been as welcome in a hungry hovel as a Christmas tree to a wood cutter.
Commercialisation of these 'days' is to spread out during the year days for profit.
The list of 'special days' seems to be increasing. In the UK and US.
Christmas day
New Years day
Valentines day
Mothers day
Easter
Whitsun
Fathers day
Summer solstice
Grandparents day
Independence day
Harvest Festival
Thanksgiving
Halloween
Guy Fawkes's day
Birthday
Wedding anniversary
Along with the events which happen occasionally
Birth of a child
Christening
Engagement
Wedding
Divorce
First holy communion
Coming of age
Confirmation
Moving house
Bereavement
Passing a driving test
Then their are celebrations for Jewish, Hindu and Islamic events.
Means we are encouraged to spend extra at least once a month.
As for suggesting Mothers day be re-located to when there is fresh fruit and flowers on the plot for mother........is like a husband buying his wife, for her birthday, some knitting yarn and a pattern for a jumper for himself. Because she likes knitting.
Let me let you in on a secret- some mums quite like it if they don't get flowers or chocolate. Why not give it a little thought and get something original! ;)
QuoteThe list of 'special days' seems to be increasing. In the UK and US.
Christmas day
New Years day
Valentines day
Mothers day
Easter
Whitsun
Fathers day
Summer solstice
Grandparents day
Independence day
Harvest Festival
Thanksgiving
Halloween
Guy Fawkes's day
Birthday
Wedding anniversary
Along with the events which happen occasionally
Birth of a child
Christening
Engagement
Wedding
Divorce
First holy communion
Coming of age
Confirmation
Moving house
Bereavement
Passing a driving test
The only one in that list that has any real significance is the summer solstice, and you missed out the two equinoxes and the mid-winter solstice. all of these have significance for gardeners. :)
Quote from: Toadspawn on March 12, 2010, 23:49:24
When I was much younger we used to pick a posy of violets and primroses on our way home from Sunday School.
whose garden did you pick them from??
My daughter is busy on Sunday so we had a special day on Thursday. I had a huge mug of starbucks coffee.
The best Mothers Day pressy I ever had were two baskets of soft pink flowers, made by the hands of each of my daughters from...........toilet paper. So much work had gone into them. I kept them for years :D
Hi Y'All
Thanks Purpleheather for reminding us what 'Mothers Day' is all about. My own mother was 'in service' and, at 14, was sent away miles from home to work as a servant. She had one day off a month, when her Dad would cycle down, pick her up, and take her home on the crossbar of his bike (and then back again in the evening). Tho their tiny house was never a hovel as such, it had no running water, no electricity or gas, and no inside loo, and they were very very poor indeed.
MOTHERING SUNDAY was when servants in this area (Cornwall) were given an extra day off, to go home and spend a special Sunday with their mothers. My Mum could never have afforded to buy a present, nor would any of the 'big house' kitchens have given her a cake to take! Her gift would, indeed, have been a bunch of wild primroses picked from the hedgerow on the way home on her Dad's bike! Mum is still very much alive at 90 and her memory as fresh as any of those primroses, and this was the way it was. No cards, no razzmatazz, no choccies, just love and a bunch of wild flowers.
Regards, Caro
i've got the solution. When me old Mum turns out empty handed tomorrow, i'll just say - I didn't get you a card, because as far as i'm concerned, Every Day Is Mother's Day ;D Fool proof
I might even use it again, probably pushing it to try it out at Christmas :o
You've missed a VERY important day:
National Brewers day!
What a lovely post, Caro. Thank you.
Quote from: Rosymacposie on March 13, 2010, 09:54:42
The best Mothers Day pressy I ever had were two baskets of soft pink flowers, made by the hands of each of my daughters from...........toilet paper. So much work had gone into them. I kept them for years :D
I've still got the cards the children made at school (children now 29 and 30), black background with yellow and green crepe paper daffodils, in one of the year boxes in the loft :)
Ninny
whose garden did you pick them from??
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Tony
That was a bit below the belt. Do you always think the worst of people?
Living in country we walked a mile to church and a mile back and we were able to pick violets and primoroses growing in the hedges. There was no need to steel anything from anyones garden. We were brought up not to steel anything from other peoples gardens.
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Living in country we walked a mile to church and a mile back and we were able to pick violets and primoroses growing in the hedges. There was no need to steel anything from anyones garden. We were brought up not to steel anything from other peoples gardens.
I also was brought up in the country, and was taught not to steal anything from peoples hedges, but then, all the hedges in my village belonged to someone who we knew, it was a small village, and dad was on the parish council. ;)
And you you have the land owner permission to take vegetation from the hedgerows ?
Whats the differenc between taking from council hedgerows and council roundabouts/parks ?
Quote from: Pesky Wabbit on March 14, 2010, 19:46:48
And you you have the land owner permission to take vegetation from the hedgerows ?
Whats the differenc between taking from council hedgerows and council roundabouts/parks ?
I'd be pretty peed off if folk nicked stuff from my hedge, wouldn't you?
there is no such thing as 'no mans land' (apart from a place called that in cornwall) everything in the country belongs to someone!!
and you think it's ok to take stuff from council roundabouts? I admit, a couple of huge canariensis palms would look nice in my garden, but I think Norwich city council would object if I took some home!!
tinkerty tonk