It.s Not Mother's Day

[follyfancier]

why does everyone insist on calling it Mother's Day now, it is MOTHERING SUNDAY
the day when everyone used to go and visit their Mother Church
when I was a child we picked a bunch of wild flowers and laid then under the altar when we went into the church, then at the end of the service we collected them and gave them to our Mother
you certainly didn,t have to go and buy a card and a present

[ummmm]

I loved the homemade stuff when my kids were little.

[follyfancier]

actually it is still not illegal to pick them for personal use

https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/discover-wild-plants-nature/picking-wildflowers-and-the-law

my Father belonged to the RHS and they always had a children' wild flowers in a jam jar competition which I entered

[Old_Geezer]

We adopted the less formal Mother's Day label at least 6 decades ago. Mothering Sunday now seems quaint and religious in nature. What they'd call it it church. Probably part of the tidal wave of US culture taking over from our own.

[Calicogirl]

Crikey @ all the 'you can't pick wild flowers' brigade- we're talking about kids picking something from the hedgerows for their Mothers- not the great train robbery. Thankfully no-one around my home county gives a stuff about such trivia. Maybe you'd like to nick my Nanna for picking blackberries whilst you're at it...lol

[Baldric]

Are hedgerows not owned by someone?

[Mamyalynne]

Careful Calico - you're in serious territory here, don't go thinking the ancient practice of making a daisy chain or holding s buttercup under your chin is allowed now.

[nailit]

//why does everyone insist on calling it Mother's Day now, it is MOTHERING SUNDAY//

Does it matter what its called?
Forget flowers anyway, my mum has enough of those. Ive bought my mum a DVD...

[Calicogirl]

Baldric have you ever actually lived in the country, do you actually understand how local communities work? People are happy and pleased to have their local resources used around here, we have wild apple trees, mushrooms growing in fields, berries in the hedgerows and the locals are pleased to see it used, and use it themselves, that's the unwritten law around here, and people trumpeting about theft would be in turn laughed at or rolled in a ditch lol

[Mamyalynne]

With regards to anyone wishing to follow the old tradition re Mothering Sunday and the Mother Church, as Hc points out it is still observed and no one needs to bow to commercialism.

[Calicogirl]

I know Mamy, better hide my bramble jam in case we get raided next time I'm home x :)

[Baldric]

@ 18:35, yes I was brought up in rural Berkshire, the family business was a riding stables, livery and poultry breeding set-up. So plenty of of experience of those with an over developed sense of entitlement trying to help themselves.

[Calicogirl]

Nice to know your family integrated so well into the local community Baldric, but it might be different in the South in fairness lol

[bednobs]

the tradition of the mother church and not your actual mother probably only matters to the following people:
people who have no mother AND
no children AND
are Christian AND
actually attend church
ie probably a handfl of people out of 70 million

[sanmac]

Cor blimey, why get into a pickle and start this petty nit-picking and picking fault with people who pick legally pickable flowers?

[Maydup]

My Mum is a church goer. I didn't realise that's what she's sensitive about the wording on the card. I always do my best to find a Mothering Sunday card rather than a Mothers Day, card and now I know why!

[maggiebee]

This is what I always thought the history of Mother's Day was.

Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent. Traditionally, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family

[sherrardk]

Surely everyone can just call it what they (or their mother) like, it’s just a day to be extra nice to your mum. Do something simple, give something homemade or throw money at it, does it really matter what other people do or call it?

[jno]

You’d think not, Sher, but when you think of all these criminal kids turning their mothers into receivers of stolen goods ... no wonder social services are overwhelmed.

[pastafreak]

Not all flowers are "legally pickable" according to this...

// Under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, it’s illegal in the UK to:

pick flowers in public parks or community gardens pick flowers on National Trust property or nature reserves
pick flowers from roundabouts etc (which are looked after by the council) 
intentionally pick, uproot or destroy any wild plant without permission from the landowner or occupier. //