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nonightowl · May 08, 2022, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by poshgirl

Here in the UK, Mother's Day was in March. It's always before Easter. During the Covid lockdowns, one very well-known store mentioned in its e-mails that they were sorry if they offended anyone who had recently experienced illness/loss. It didn't appear this year. Adverts for chocolate didn't mention the day specifically.

Its origin is more interesting. Historically called Mothering Sunday, it was the day when staff (servants) were allowed time off to visit their mothers.

My mother chooses to go to my brother on that day. Not going to argue with her, I just welcome the opportunity to do what I want. She gets gift and card the day before, often with a cream cake!

Thanks for posting.

I'm making it a point not to listen to my favorite radio station this weekend because ALL WEEKEND they are going to keep telling me about today.

COVID isn't even mentioned here, except as statisitics and an afterthought.

Never occurs to florists or candy makers that maybe someone just lost their mom to COVID. We've had over a million deaths here, and people are acting like this is over and that we don't have a million people GRIEVING too.

Here they bring out the flowers and candy right after Easter, to remind you of the next "holiday." It's not a holiday but it is treated as one, in many ways. Like Super Bowl Sunday which I couldn't care less about.