Mothering Sunday is a Christian religious festival held on the fourth Sunday of Lent in most of the Catholic and Protestant world, not just the UK.
It has been almost entirely hi-jacked by commercial interests.
Thanks, AS.Youngest son and family are on their way round to see me then eldest son and family are picking me up later on and we're going to a lovely little 'tea room' in a nearby market town.
It's a beautiful sunny day too, clear blue skies etc.
Canada celebrates Mother's Day in May also, Annie.
In the US it's in May.