To all you mums – Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you were spoilt with at least breakfast in bed – I was! Then I got to escape on my bike for an hour. That may not sound like fun to everyone but I love it – moving my muscles (which screamed up the hills), breathing fresh air (more accurately gasping on those hills), grabbing some sun (and vitamin D) in between the autumn rain and just getting some ME time!

I can’t say the food at our big family mother’s day lunch was all healthy but it was yummy! 15 adults and 6 children spent four hours chatting and enjoying bacon and egg pie (my contribution and guaranteed to boost your cholesterol levels), salad with avocados from dad’s orchard, Indian style noodles with chicken and vegetables from our Indian relatives, lamb and vegetable soup. Then for dessert – chocolate brownies, carrot cake with walnuts, pumpkin seeds and dates, cup cakes, pineapple, mandarins, grapes and rockmelon with tea and coffee. It really was ‘slow food’ eating at its best.

Finally here’s a great ‘mum’ story I read today written by Richard De Haan. ‘A teacher gave her class of second-graders a lesson about the magnet and what it does, The next day, in a written test, she included this question: “My name has six letters. The first one is m. I pick up things. What am I?” When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost 50% of the students answered the question with the word mother!’

Happy Mother’s Day!