Hiya. The girls and I have been out walking, and walking, and walking. This morning we did seven miles. We started by going to top of the hill, then down the road a piece, then down the hill to the coast, back to the lake [a park along side the coast] and then home. Seven miles!
This weekend was daylight savings time in the U.S., but we don't switch in the U.K. until the end of the month. So for the rest of March, I am one-hour closer to your time zone:Eastern -4 hours
Mid-West -5 hours
Mountain -6 hours
West Coast -7 hours
Last week, Sunday, was Mothering Sunday here in the U.K. It is the equivalent of M
other's Day in the U.S. It has been celebrated in the U.K. on the fourth Sunday in Lent since at least the 16th century. It is the day for giving thanks for all the things our mothers do for us. Mothering Sunday was also known as 'Refreshment Sunday' or 'Mid-Lent Sunday'; fasting rules for Lent are relaxed. On this day about four hundred years ago, people who lived in villages made a point of going to the nearest big church, or Mother Church. People who visited would say they had gone "a mothering". Young English girls and boys 'in service' were only allowed one day to visit their family each year, usually Mothering Sunday. Gifts of flowers were traditional, as the young girls and boys would have to walk home to their village, and could gather them on their way through the meadows. Happy Mothering Day!
other's Day in the U.S. It has been celebrated in the U.K. on the fourth Sunday in Lent since at least the 16th century. It is the day for giving thanks for all the things our mothers do for us. Mothering Sunday was also known as 'Refreshment Sunday' or 'Mid-Lent Sunday'; fasting rules for Lent are relaxed. On this day about four hundred years ago, people who lived in villages made a point of going to the nearest big church, or Mother Church. People who visited would say they had gone "a mothering". Young English girls and boys 'in service' were only allowed one day to visit their family each year, usually Mothering Sunday. Gifts of flowers were traditional, as the young girls and boys would have to walk home to their village, and could gather them on their way through the meadows. Happy Mothering Day!
