In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Yes i did, but she still tracked me down :laughs:
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Mines around the corner! :swoon:
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Mine is in a pretty urn on the mantelpiece.
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
sadly not LOL
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
[quote=Sally Donaldson;112606]Mine is in France.[/quote]
Last Sunday in May
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In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
[quote=alan h;112595]if so - and you want to send a card etc.,
In the UK - Mothering Sunday is 22nd March this year
.[/quote]
Oh the trouble I got into over the Italian 'Mothering Sunday' the first year I was here...
In those days (early 60's) there was no internet. We didn't have a 'phone, English newspapers, by the time I got them, were usually weeks old and we (newly weds) didn''t have television. Not that that was a loss - with programmes not starting 'til late afternoon anyway. So I knew nothing (and I mean NOTHING) about 'that celebration' back home and, accordingly, [U][I]did[/I][/U] nothing.
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][B][I]BiiiiiG[/I][/B] MISTAKE[/SIZE] [/FONT]:eeeek:
It was like the 'end of the World' - When 'the letter' arrived and I opened it - HTG I almost burned my fingers....
[IMG]https://www.travelthere.com/ContalResources/site_images/img-burning-paper.gif[/IMG]dear old Mum [U][I]wasn't[/I][/U]a happy bunny. I got both barrels!!!
*What kind of daughter was I that would forget THAT day?
*It was [U]only[/U] once a year - and I couldn't be bothered!
*You don't love me any more.....!
*Out of sight - out of mind!
Oh indded, I got the lot - and couldn't understand 'how' I had missed it. I didn't remember seeing anything here in Milano advertising Festa della Mama so I asked my husband when he got home. Well yes - you've guessed - he explained that in Italy it is celebrated in MAY!
I kid you not. That was NO consolation what-so-ever... Dear old MUm (Bless her) [U][B]didn't believe me[/B][/U] . So from early March until the ads started coming out, and I cut a couple of 'em out of the paper and sent them, I was a real [I]'persona non grata'[/I] for my Mum. We laughed about it later (must have taken 10 years :rollingeyes:though), but she never let me forget.
The moral of this story is.... please your Mum if she's 'back in Blighty' and celebrate TWICE!
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
[quote=Nielo;112614]Mine is in a pretty urn on the mantelpiece.[/quote]
You've just reminded me that four years ago when my mother passed I took it upon myself to assure my siblings I would bring her urn back for burial in a family plot. Still not done it yet although I did put some ash in the earth when I planted a new cypress tree. :eeeek:
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
[quote=deborahandricky;112616]sadly not LOL[/quote]Me too, mine's here with me.
Mine is in France.