Mothering Sunday

 It's Mothering Sunday here in the UK. Our Mother's Day. This isn't the Hallmark event, but a tradition that goes back to the times when, on the fourth Sunday in Lent, servant girls were given the afternoon off to visit their mothers.

They took them a Simnel cake - spicy, topped with marzipan - and picked wild flowers on the way.



 


All over the British Isles we will be visiting,
or remembering our mothers today.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!


Primroses and violets were the traditional gift, along with a simnel cake, from girls in "service" who were allowed home to visit their mother's on the fourth Sunday in Lent -- known as Mothering Sunday; the day in the UK that we still celebrate as Mother's Day.

These primroses are flowering now in my garden and I'm posting them here with my love.

Have a lovely day!