Mothering Sunday

Can’t we do International Women’s Day instead? — It is nearly that time of year again. If you are a church attender and a woman, you will know that we are again approaching the Day of The Inadequate Daffodil. I have many memories of Mothering Sundays Past and all of them make me cringe a bit. …

“I could tell you all my secrets, all the things nobody says.” — Some films just seem so foolproof, that you feel like you not only know what you’re in for but that everything about it should work. That’s not to say that despite the right cast, director, setting, dialogue, and all the other components required to come together to make a film…

Alice Birch ( Lady Macbeth, Normal People) tastefully adapts Graham Swift’s novella of doomed romance in post-World War I Britain, set in the backdrop of mourning and survivor’s guilt. Odessa Young plays Jane, a young maid at a grand house ruled over by Mr and Mrs Niven (an underused Colin…

“My Life Is In Danger! My Husband Threatened To Stab My Private Part And Take My Blood” I was trying to figure out what to write on mothering day that falls here this last Sunday of March. …

Mothering Sunday and Mother’s Day have distinct meanings, as Martin Fone explains in the latest of his Curious Questions. The advent of the fourth or middle Sunday of Lent must have been eagerly anticipated for centuries. Known variously as Laetare Sunday, from the Latin for rejoice, or Refreshment Sunday, from…

Based on the novel by Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday is the captivating story of Jane Fairchild(Odessa Young) who, as a young woman, works as a maid and is involved in a delicious entanglement with law student Paul Sheringham (Josh O’Connor) in the post World War I English countryside. Jane works…

14 March 2021 — MOTHERING SUNDAY Yes, today is what has been designated as Mother’s Day. The day when we make a point of putting our Mothers first and remembering all they have done for us over the years. For many it can be a day tinged with sadness if the mother has died but hopefully memories of the past will compensate. I have often wondered why we need such a day and the sceptic in me thinks it is merely a commercial ploy to get us all spending! Our Mothers, of course need to be honoured for giving birth to us even if our relationship with them is not as good as we would like.