Summertime

[poliphilo]

I started putting the clocks forward yesterday afternoon in the hope that by bedtime my body would have acclimatized itself to the lost hour. It didn't work.

I blame the time-lag for the fact that the card I wrote for my mother first thing this morning reads-

Happy Birth (whoops!) Mothering Sunday...

Comments

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Mothering Sunday and Mothers' Day have separate origins, one religious the other secular*, it's just that in the UK lines blurred. I suppose whether one says Mothering Sunday or Mothers' Day depends on how young/secular/traditionalist one is.

*And there after very quickly and heavily exploited by comercial concerns, thus cementing it in culture.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's not my favourite festival. I don't like being morally blackmailed into giving money to the card manufacturers.