Kitchen Garden Forum

Just wishing all you mums out there a very happy mothers day, i hope you all have a great day.
Poor Old herbaceous has had a really bad bout of flu for the past four days, and am feeling quite sorry for myself, but i am feeling a bit better this morning, and i am sure i will soon be back to my old ways.

Kind regards Old herbaceous.

Theres nothing to beat the sight or sound of nature.

Get well old herb and take it nice and easy and may I join in with your thoughts to all the Mothers.

Being an orphan I now get out of Mothers day dinners etc so am off to the lottie to manacle some scaffolding into a bean frame.

i keep telling the kids its Mothers day not wives day having done breakfast in bed im trying to get out of lunch, though have allready put the meat in the slow cooker.

I am a very lucky mum today having been given the RHS encyclopaedia of gardening, which I've wanted for ages, and a pretty adiantum for the bathroom.
Only one drawback - got them at 7 o'clock this morning which was 6 o'clock really. Having worked during the day on Friday and then done a 12 hour nightshift and only 3 hours sleep yesterday I could really have done with a lie-in! And I've got a cold dammit. Never mind, husband's out mountain-biking and daughter (eight) informs me she is going to do all my jobs today. Oh joy!

I got a lovely herb growing pot which would have been fab except my son dropped it after before he werapped it up. He wrapped the broken pieces as well which was thoughtful. The Old Man to glue it back together again later. Bless them, the thought was there.

I'm lucky too - was given two beautifully informative poultry books by my lovely daughter.

Evening piglet, hope your bean frame went alright.
Sorry to hear you miss out on mothers day.
Just to change the subject, i'm going to put electric in my greenhouse, but come up with a good idea. I think i can join in to my neighbours supply.
Think how many heaters i can have going.
If anyone believes this they must be as silly as me.
As you can see i am feeling better by the hour.

Kind regards an improving Old herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

Being thoroughly disillusioned with the cost & standard of meals out for mothers' day (getting similar to anything associated with weddings & funerals!), I had the family inc. my mum and mum in law to lunch today. Mains (sorry PigletWillie, it was pork) were accompanied by the last of the allotment spuds and cabbage, and dessert was panna cotta with the first of my forced rhubarb, poached in syrup. Went down a treat, yums all round. How cynical is this, though - on the way to pick up my mum, there is a fairly busy little road and the police had set up a mobile speed camera, presumably to catch all those mums who were running late for their special lunch. I guess they were jealous that we more human types have or had mothers to think of today. Cynical, me????

Has anyone seen the price of flowers in Asda, jus cause its mothers day

Am I just cynical but is Mothers day positioned at such a time so that it is too early to give them flowers grown yourself, thus guaranteeing you have to hot foot it to a florists.

I gave my Mum a selection of packets of seeds of her fav flowers.....far cheaper & she'll enjoy growing them throughout the summer. (And they fitted in the card!!!)

you're not being cynical Pigletwillie. Most people have not realised that mothers day is always 9 months after fathers day. June to march.
Pete

I think it's a big con myself but the kids like to do something cos they love their mum!!!

Got my mum a little set from my favourite shop. Lush. Always spend far too much when I go in there cos I can't resist the place.

The flowers in Aldi are better than a lot i've seen in the big supermarkets and start from £1.79 for a decent sized bunch.

Don't worry you cynical lot. I'm as much of a realist as the rest of you!!!

Mother's day or more correctly Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival and is ALWAYS the fourth Sunday of Lent, hence it moves each year!

However, I can remember helping my Grandma make up a 100 bunches of daffodils and flowering currents for the children that went to church on Mothering Sunday to give to their mothers. (Church collection is always good on Mothering Sunday!). These had been raided from local gardens!....but that was in the 1960's before the world got sooooo commercialised.

My mum and dad had a small greengrocery shop. I am now 61, and going back to the days when I was young, Mothering Sunday, and all other spring festivals were ramps for the flower sellers. If you bought the week before, or the week after they were a fraction of the price. Mum and dad had no option but to pay the wholesaler's price for the Mothering Sunday weekend.

Personally, I would be more inclined to give a present that was longer lasting than a plant or bunch of flowers, daft old biddy that I am.

valmarg