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Sunday 10 March 2013

Mothering Sunday

Here in the UK it is Mothering Sunday, usually we enjoy a walk around some other town but the weather is absolutely awful here today, freezing cold, rain and now snow!  Thursday's visit to London was positively tropical compared, but my two teens made my day brighter with some beautiful flowers, chocolates, seeds to start me off in the greenhouse and...a date with Daniel Craig (Mr 007 himself)!  
Yes, I can finally watch Skyfall this afternoon with my latest project on my hook, and NOT feel guilty!  I have a massive pile of ironing to do, but that can wait until later so I can relax while the men of the house make me a roast beef dinner.  The flowers were beautiful with some lovely roses and the stocks made them smell even sweeter.

The local garden centre that we visited had a lovely display of Mothering Sunday nik naks.  I especially like the size of the wine glasses (top right shelf)!


In fact, there are lots of nik naks everywhere.  I absolutely love their displays.  Do you remember they had gingerbread men at Christmas in this little corner? (post here

And how about this for an Easter display...
I had to take a shot of the bed of primulas.  During the summer they do a bed of roses!
So now, I will sign off for this weekend (and also I have just finished half a box of chocolates while I have been writing this post and feel quite ill !).  Thank you all for visiting, following and commenting on my London post, you are all so kind.  The photos were not brilliant and I do promise I will be back there soon.  Mr Teenager is going there with the school next week so no doubt I will have some 'London Part 2's' next week, but this will be the East London side near the Docklands (my favourite place!).

For those in the UK, Happy Mother's Day.  And for those in other glorious parts of the world, I hope you get a chance to be spoilt at some point today.  You are all amazing.




Have a wonderful week.

Take care.

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32 comments:

  1. Happy Mother's day to you! It looks like you are getting a lot of special treatment...the roast beef dinner sounds yummy. I'm getting ready to put a roast in the slow cooker. The store has some fun Spring things...love the chickens and rabbits! Enjoy your day...kick back and relax!

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  2. Oooh Chel - stocks and roses - I bet your home smells wonderful! We've got a double celebration today as it's Mr Ks birthday too so we've split it - I get the day (that is until 8pm naturally) and then we go out with friends this evening (his part) Fair? Yes I think so! Enjoy Mr Craig x Jane

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  3. Hi Chel! I love your blog!! Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures of your garden centre. I felt like I went! I am happy we are new blogging friends!
    Happy Mother's Day!
    (I laughed out loud when I read about you eating half a box of chocolates, I can relate! : )
    Beth : )

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  4. Hi Chel, Happy Mother's Day! It looks like you had such a lovely day today. I love the flowers that your family gave you, they are so pretty. The store that you went to visit is decorated so pretty for Spring and Easter and I love this time of year! Thanks for all those wonderful pictures that you shared today. Take care. Julie

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  5. That looks like a wonderful place to browse through.

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  6. Wishing you a beautiful Mothering Sunday! I'm so glad to have stumbled across your blog. I really enjoy it. I hope to visit London and the Cotswolds one day soon. :-)))
    Hugs,
    Linda at Beautiful Ideas

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  7. Nothing beats chocolates and a date with Bond!

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  8. Happy Mother's Day, sounds like you have had a perfect day! Your new flowers are beautiful. That garden centre looks amazing!
    M xxxx

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  9. Happy day to you - and how lovely to have dinner prepared for you. The pretties are so lovely and your basket of flowers is wonderful. Mother's Day over here is in June, so we have a ways to go yet - but it is always a joyous celebration too - with lots of hugs these days from grandsons.

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  10. Gorgeous photos! Thanks so much for your comments and for following. Best wishes for a wonderful week!

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  11. It looks like you had a very sweet and happy day, with lots of pampering and little gifts! I do love that basket of prims with the metal sign. The shops are so dear, I could spend days just looking at the displays. The Bed of Primroses is the best! Glad you had a lovely day! xx

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  12. I think I could fall in love with your local garden centre - it looks utterly gorgeous.

    Nina x

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  13. So pleased you got spoilt on Mothers' Day. I could spend hours wandering around garden centres wishing my creations could look that good!

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  14. You got some lovely flowers for mother's day - I'm glad you had time to enjoy yourself and get spoiled :) Your garden centre looks lovely, whenever I go back 'home' to visit my parents I always make time to go to the local garden centre too.
    There's an award for you over on my blog :) Elisabeth x

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  15. What lovely displays in your local garden centre!! x

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  16. Sounds like a lovely day, lovely flowers, and who could turn down a roast beef dinner. Eating my chocs from Mother's Day while reading this... knowing that sickly feeling... time to get up and do something else maybe :) xx

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  17. What a fun post and great photos ! and Happy Mothers Day! :)

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  18. Hi Chel, your Mothering Sunday post is so beautiful. I love all the colour of the flowers you received and the little shop is sweet with it's springtime displays. Blessings, Pamela

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  19. What beautiful photos! Happy Mother's Day. Your flowers are just lovely. And I agree ~ that is quite a cute Easter display. Enjoy Skyfall ~ I love Daniel Craig as Bond. :)

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  20. What a wonderful way to spend Mother's day:0) The flowers are beautiful! You can never go wrong with 007 and chocolates:0) It isn't Mother's day here until May 12th. We have always had the tradition of spending time with my Grandma, My Mom, and sister...My Grandma has past now and both my sister and I have children so the tradition has continued. Now it's my kids, their mom and their grandma:0)
    Many Blessing this week for you and your family!

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  21. It sounds like you enjoyed your day. Your photos are wonderful and the flowers so beautiful. I would love to browse that shop! Happy Mother's Day and thank you for sharing at my HOME. Enjoy your weekend.

    Blessings,
    Sandi

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  22. What lovely treats for Mother's Day! Thanks you for joining Home Sweet Home!
    Sherry

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  23. what beautiful flowers!

    Nikki x

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  24. Glad you had a lovely Mother's day. Garden centres are great for browsing aren't they. Yours looks like it's got loads of nice things. I saw your comment somewhere about spam mail, have you tried changing your settings to "registered users only" it's worked for me :)

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  25. What lovely flowers! And dinner cooked for you! Lucky Mother! In France Mother's Day is later in spring.

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  26. Chel, your Mother's Day post is lovely! I hope you've recovered from the chocolate overload :)

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  27. Hello, I'm visiting by link from Brenda's Cozy Little House and it's nice to be able to see pictures of London. I visit Devon through my friend Maureen's blog at Random Distractions and love seeing pictures of the coast there. I hope the movie is good, sure it will be and can't wait to see it myself. I also read your post on no-reply and several of the blogs I follow have that problem. I did myself and didn't realize it but a kind blogger pointed it out and helped me fix it. It is so nice when bloggers help other bloggers.

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  28. Hello! I'm visiting from Brenda's Cozy Little House. I'm also one of the featured bloggers. I absolutely loved seeing your pictures of the prims. I had them all over my yard in California but haven't seen them here in Virginia. I miss them much! They were one of my favorite flowers. I look forward to getting to know you through blogland!

    Blessings & Hugs ...
    Lani
    www.SimplyFreshVintage.com

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  29. Happy Mother's Day to you! Ours is still a ways off. your shops are so beautifully decorated for your special day, they look so inviting, and stuffed with wonderful finds! I've had a happy visit and will be back! I'm your newest follower.

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  30. Belated Happy Mother's Day, dear Chel! Great that you had such a nice day and caring children :-). I'll have to wait a little, German Mother's Day is in May ;-).

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  31. Hi Chel, I am so happy to have found your blog!! I was once in England on your Mother's Day, had a wonderful time traveling with my family (we were in York that day!), then came home and had another fun Mother's Day here! I was quite spoiled that year. I just love the UK and have spent many memorable vacations there. Both my kids did some college time in Scotland and I was able to go over and do a little more traveling there. I am looking forward to many more of your posts and I will be scrolling back through to see what I have missed. Your newest follower from the USA, Linda

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