Pizzawheel

Any ideas where I could get a mother's day card to post back to blighty? First time I'm trying to do this.

Ideally East Toronto if its a shop.

cheers!

BristolUK

Canada has Mothers Day too, albeit in May.

I have never looked but I wouldn't think it hard to get one, unless they only put them out a week before or something. Of course there are always blank ones.

Have you got crayons to make your own?

Pulaski

Thank you for reminding me. ... I am off to shop at moonpig.com - they have loads for Mothers Day, and 14 specifically for Mothering Sunday, if that's what you're looking for. There isn't a page for Mother's Day, but there is a filter on the left hand side. The problem in the US, and I assume the same in Canada, which has the same Mother's Day, and of course the same Easter, is that shops have part of their card racks set aside for seasonal cards, that rotate Valentines Day, Easter, Mother's Day, etc, and as Mothering Sunday is necessarily before Easter (it is tied to the church calendar), Mother's Day cards in the US are not put out for sale until after Easter has been and gone.

Danny B

I wish countries would standardize these days. Fathers day in the UK is the same day as Canada but Mothers day here in Canada is two months later. Weird.

Pulaski

Per my post above "Mothering Sunday" is a longstanding religious holiday tied to the Christian calendar, which has nothing to do with "Mothers Day", which I think is an American invention, and other countries latched on to. Maybe the UK will eventually drift to observing Mother's Day on the same day as the US and Canada, like Halloween has become quite a thing in the UK, and even Thanksgiving (US date), but there is no chance of the religious holiday, Mothering Sunday, being moved as is it locked into the rest of the Christian calendar.

scilly

True ................ this is the day on which servants were allowed to go home to see their mothers, often with a small gift of food or flowers, if they were able to get there and back in the one day.

It was very much a Religious event.

The US Mother's Day was the result of a campaign by a woman back in the early years of last century.

Father's Day came later after another lady campaign on the basis that fathers needed their own day of recognition.

Pollyana

Yes, Mothering Sunday (UK) has a very different history to Mothers Day (US/Canada/Aus) and the two should never be merged.

Some shops in Aus used to do specific “Mothers Day UK” card selections, but in the last few years I have used sites like Snapfish.co.uk who post direct within the UK, and allow you to design your own card🙂

Former Lancastrian

Oh what to do as my mother is British but now lives in Canada. Do I say "Oi mum would you be happy enough to celebrate Mothering Sunday in the UK on March 19th and I will pay for the flights or do you want to wait until 14th May and I can send you a card and flowers from within Canada?"

bats

The fourth Sunday in Lent. I remember going to church with my mum when I was little and the children went up to the front and were given posies of primroses to give to their mother's. It was very sweet, one of the few things about church that I liked

Pizzawheel

A blank card was procured and posted.

Mum couldn't read it 🤣