Comments on: On Mothering Sunday

By: Terry Palmer

Terry Palmer — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 13:07:42 +0000

Very much my own feelings. I sometimes get uncomfortable with it all (as with Father’s Day), but I tend to come back to the view that every day was/is Mother/Father’s Day.

By: Krissy

Krissy — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:28:04 +0000

I read and enjoy all your wonderful posts, but this one actually brought me to tears – your writing is so evocative – you really brought your mother alive for me. What a wonderful memorial. I was particularly struck by the tendency of our parents’ generation to minimise complaints and to always confirm that they were fine – that need to make others feel at ease. Thank you once again, and please be assured that you make so many people happy with your wonderful blog, which I always recommend to my English students, not only for your command of language, but for the sense of London which you convey, which is really appreciated by my students, some of whom are refugees and new to this wonderful city.

By: Phil maxwell

Phil maxwell — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:47:27 +0000

A great mum.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:22:36 +0000

Lovely

By: Vicky Stewart

Vicky Stewart — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:30:19 +0000

I have just lost my mother so am feeling her loss and the sentiments around Mothering Sunday accutely. I think Claire Scargill sums up the occasion beautifully.

By: R

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:48:26 +0000

Here is to you, GA, and all of us left motherless. May their memories be a blessing.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:44:47 +0000

Your tribute is touching and poignant. Do not forget; you share fifty percent of your mother’s genome. She is and will always be so proud of you and loves you more deeply than you will know. She lives on in you.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:08:01 +0000

A lovely, thoughtful tribute to your Mother.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:04:21 +0000

I always think of the saying that I came across after my mother died and remember it today; ‘never say in grief she is no more but only say in thankfulness she was.’ It sums up my feelings today so very well. I do miss my mother but I never feel that I got close to her in any way whatsoever which is sad, she could indeed be very difficult, but my husband and my son loved her so perhaps the fault was mine, I admire her enormously and am extremely proud of her, but it was always my father who held the key to my heart.

I also remember today my friend who lost all three of her children, the adorable beautiful Sharon who died before she was three, a baby, Tina, who died very soon after birth and Niall who died in a motor bike accident in his twenties. How anyone copes with such grief I shall never know but my friend is much in my thoughts today which is a day of mixed emotions for many of us as well as for you GA I am sure your mother would be very proud of you and you did your very best for her, never forget that.

I agree absolutely about the commercialization of the day, it is Mothering Sunday for me too as it always has been.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:02:12 +0000

Thankyou for your beautiful and eloquent tribute to your Mother, how blessed you were to have been raised by such a supportive person. Your words made me feel very wistful for what was lacking in my relationship with my own mother who was loving but always the “little girl” in our family.