Mother’s Day is coming sooner than you think (March 22nd 2020) so if you want to spoil your Mother, you need to book something soon. Historically Mother’s Day was the day that children and young people ‘in service’ were given off to return home to their families or their Mother Church to visit. Wildflowers were often picked along the way to give to their Mother or to take to Church and so the tradition of flowers or gifts has come from this. Nowadays we choose to give flowers, a gift or spoil our Mum’s in more modern ways. Here are a few suggestions for you:-

Mother’s Day is fast approaching (22nd March) and if you want to take your Mum somewhere nice you need to start thinking about it now. Historically Mother’s Day was the day when children and young people in service were given a day off to visit their families or originally return to their ‘mother’ Church. The tradition of giving gifts came from wildflowers picked along the way either to place in Church or give to their mothers. Now we celebrate by gift giving, giving Mum a rest from the chores or taking her out. So here are a few ideas to help you:-

Fairtrade Fortnight continues until the 10th March 2019, during two weeks each year thousands of individuals, companies and groups of people across the Country join together to celebrate and show support for the growers of much of our food. Food is often produced in the poorest Countries across the World and the people who grow it are often exploited and poorly paid,amongst the crops that are grown is chocolate from the cocoa bean, a luxury food taken for granted by for most of us.

Keen knitters from Taunton are this month (March, 2014) invited to join in with a regular knitting club taking place at a garden centre in the town.