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May 10, 2025Find out where the best cloth recycling bins locations South West London are ready for your spring/summer cleanout. Did you go and see your mum this year? It seems these days that there is a special day for everything, from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day, to the less obvious Secretary’s Day, Single’s Day, and National Chip n Dip Day, Debt Awareness Week and National Flea and Tick Prevention Week, then whole months like Neurodiversity Awareness Month and Veganuary, which are very good ideas but not traditional. Mother’s Day, however, is a very old day of celebration indeed.
Mother’s Day is a perfect moment to let your mum know you appreciate her. Of course, you should try and always do this, but it’s good that she gets her own special day – as well as her birthday, of course! A nice thing to do with your mum is to go around the charity shop. You might find some really good unwanted clothing in good condition. Recycling banks collect textile waste and send the textiles collected to clothes recycling and textile recycling plants. Recycling bins do the same thing as cloth recycling bins locations South West London.
Beautiful spring flowers. Image via Wikipedia, copyright free.
What Present Should I Get?
There are plenty of lists of ideal Mother’s Day presents online, but you should think about what your own mum would like. What is her favourite perfume, if any? Does she like flowers or would she prefer a plant? Remember, if her household includes cats you can’t get any bouquets with lilies, as they are poisonous to cats. Other good gifts includes chocolates, or you could bake her a cake.
It’s also nice to do something together. Invite her for lunch or dinner, take her to the cinema, or go shopping. Maybe she’d like to go and see a show, or visit a new little town or go to the seaside? There’s plenty of ways to let her know how much you care. If you are artistic you could also paint her a card or make her something as well. You could even do something like clean the house or mow the lawn or do other chores so that she gets a nice break. As well as this, hw about getting the family together to enjoy a picnic in the spring sunshine? It’s an ideal opportunity to enjoy the spring flowers and everyone can bring something for it, like buns or a salad to share.
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Mothering Sunday is another name for Mother’s Day. It’s not a religious holiday any more, it’s purely about getting the family together and going to see your mother. But the date of it changes because it’s tied into the date of Easter, which is related to the Spring Equinox, which changes every year because our calendar in the UK, the Gregorian calendar, cannot quite fit in to the natural calendar, which is the Lunar Calendar. The Lunar Calendar goes on the phases of the moon, from the New Moon all through its phases of First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Quarter and everything in between. The Spring Equinox is the date on which day and night are about the same length, because the earth is exactly perpendicular to the sun.
When is Mother’s Day?
Easter comes on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. Mother’s Day is three weeks before Easter, the Fourth Sunday of Lent. It seems complicated but it’s pretty cool that important days in the UK still go by the phases of the moon and the different seasons, in what seems like a very Pagan system. It just doesn’t fit into our normal every day calendar at all. The Gregorian Calendar has anything from 28 to 31 days in each month, plus an extra day in February every leap year. So that’s why the date will change.
But you don’t really have to calculate it every year, unless you want to or are very in tune with the lunar calendar. You just have to remember that it always falls in between Pancake Day and Easter. Also, every shop in the UK will let you know well in advance, so you can get your flowers ready and book your train tickets. You can also just look it up!
Cloth recycling bins locations South West London – What is the History of Mother’s Day?
Mother’s Day has been around since Medieval times. You would return to your “Mother Church”, the one you got christened in, probably in the place you were born, once a year. If you worked elsewhere or had moved away, you’d still try to make it. At the same time, you’d visit your family, especially your mother, as in all probability she still lived there. It was such a good way for the whole family to get together.
Later on, servants would be given this day off especially to go and see their mums. Servants usually lived in the house they worked in and didn’t get much time off at all. So even if their family was in the next village it was pretty hard to go and visit. They might have gone out to work at the young age of ten. So it was nice for the whole family to be given a day off together. You can still see paths in some very old village woodlands, leading from one village to the next, where people walked for many years. It is said that children picked flowers on the way to give to their mums. And that is why flowers are still such a popular Mother’s Day present.
But now we don’t have to walk to see our mothers. At least I hope not, as it would be a very long journey for me!
