Mothering Sunday in the UK

It is UK Mothering Sunday today March 14th and we were going down to Mum's with a special lunch cooked at her request.  The day started warmly enough but as it went on became much cooler - it looks as though March is going to be infinitely less pleasant than February turned out to be.

I know Mum doesn't go a bundle on having her photograph taken so today I will fill this entry with photographs taken this morning in our garden which currently has some lovely colour in it.  We are forecast rain this forthcoming week but today I decided I couldn't really wait that long and had to get the hose out and help it along.

I made Mum a card for Mother's Day as we have not been anywhere to be able to get a nice one and I still have quite a bit of card making paraphernalia in the craft cupboard.  I had managed to find somewhere that did phone covers for her phone and it had arrived on time and, unlike the one which I ordered for Christmas, appears to be the right size but sadly it is so stiff that Mum cannot get the phone in and out.  I have decided that I am going to have to make something for her that she can manage.

Her request today was that I make Hunter's Chicken which I did and some coleslaw and skin-on wedges to go with it.  I had cooked this yesterday up to a point where I could take it with us today and finish it off at hers.  Pud was to be apple strudel and some fresh cream.  

We had anticipated that it might be quite busy on the roads today as tomorrow is a bank holiday but there was little traffic so we got down in good time.  Unfortunately the strawberry man was not at the Coral Bay junction - we think that either his crop have now come to an end or he just doesn't come on a Sunday, having said that he wasn't there on Wednesday when I went by either.

So we had a nice lunch with Mum.  Taking lunch down with us is working pretty well and I have offered to make up some meals for Mum to supplement those that she gets from Easy Meals.  I know she likes a bit of lamb and had had a lamb casserole from them last week but she said it was local lamb and she, like me, thinks it has a strange flavour.  Mum went to Kolios this week to get some New Zealand lamb tenderloin and this is what I shall be using.  She also nipped into Shukrou to get some more lamb shanks - the ones we had last week were excellent.

It took us a little longer to get home than we had allowed so we were about five minutes outside our three hour allowance.  We had swung by Jeff and Marianne's to pick up a bag of pink grapefruit as they had been harvesting their trees.  I had expected a carrier bag full but ended up with loads so I dropped some off at my neighbour Persephone's because she has kindly given us some absolutely delicious home made lemon drizzle cake - in fact three lots in the last week or so!

We had a quiet evening - there is an air of doom and gloom in the Wiseman household as the manager-less Mighty Blades were hammered 5-0 by Leicester and England managed to lose the 20-20 cricket match against India.