Mum's Day Off 14th March 2010
After a completely unscientific study of asking all the mum's we know what they'd like for Mothering Sunday we've come up with a range of products to help you pamper, spoil or simply make your mother smile. The number one request was for something personalised. So if your mum is an ethical lady; look for fair trade products, if she's wheat intolerant; try the gluten free, when in doubt, go organic seems to be the general rule!
There are delicious chocolates, including gluten free, organic, vegan or fairly traded options for you to choose from, available in our
Chocolate Shop. We recommend the
Booja Booja for mouth-watering luxurious truffles (vegan, gluten-free and organic),
Willie's Cacao for cooking with (and yes because it's Mothering Sunday, you are to do the cooking!) or try
Feeding Your Imagination for a range of beautiful bars of deliciously flavoured organic chocolate.
Our
Natural Beauty Shop is chock full of enticing goodies. Try
Essential Care's handmade award-winning organic skincare, the
Burt's Bees range for fresh natural products or
Ikove for their Amazonian sourced organic products. Of course we still stock our huge range of baking ingredients if you want to be truly traditional and bake a simnel cake for Mothering Sunday. If you're still undecided, why not pop into one of our shops (Broughton Street, or Brougham Street, Tollcross) and ask one of our lovely shop assistants for some advice.
Go on, spoil your mum!
Mothering Sunday dates from at least the 1600s and is always held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. Traditionally it was a day off to attend the 'mother' church (the one in which you were baptised) and to give your mother gifts (flowers and simnel cake were popular) as well as the day off from chores. One theory is that it was adopted from the Roman spring festival celebrating Cybele, their Mother Goddess.