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  • Mothers Day
  • druidh
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    Anyone cancelling planned rides because it’s Mothers Day tomorrow?

    DezB
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    Not cancelling, just not accepting the invite. 🙁

    GW
    Free Member

    haven’t planned my bike ride for tomorrow yet (I’m not that organised)..
    Mothers day is just a morning thing and riding bikes isn’t so they don’t clash

    brakes
    Free Member

    entertained my Mum for the last two days so tomorrow is free 🙂

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    My mum lives up North, and I live down South, so not much I can do. Having said that, I’ll be on the train all day anyway. 🙁

    Spud
    Full Member

    It’s only one day so not riding.

    RichJJ
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    Riding before 7, left kids instructions on how the toaster works

    Wookster
    Full Member

    Yep no ride, been off the bike for a week but mothers day plus my sons 2nd Bday = no riding!!!

    stuartie_c
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    Going to visit her after the ride. Pitlochry is on the way home so it fits in nicely.

    Kit
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    Funny, you hear loads of folk moaning about Valentine’s Day but not Mothers’ Day!

    Do people not make the effort to make their mums feel special on any other day of the year?

    Elfinsafety
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    No they don’t cos they’re all soulless evil ungrateful bastards who need to be reminded about caring for a loved one and making the effort for someone who went through 9 months of pregnacy, gave birth to and nurtured them. 😡

    I’m going pub for lunch with me mum tomoz, but not cos it’s some commercialised event which is really about buying cheesy tat.

    pastcaring
    Free Member

    just another bullshit day, made up by the card companies!

    becky_kirk43
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    I’ve sent my mum a funky pidgeon personalised card, and will be taking her out for a meal or something like that when I get back home next weekend.

    That said, I probably won’t end up riding anyway…I shall see 😛

    pixelmix
    Free Member

    just another bullshit day, made up by the card companies

    Christian ‘festival’ actually – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday

    I’ll be riding in the afternoon and having the folks round for dinner. Win win.

    pastcaring
    Free Member

    just another bullshit day, made up by the christians

    better?

    Drac
    Full Member

    I thought it was a Roman festival and then surprise surprise Christianity adopted it.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Riding during the day, parenting during the evening, civilised.

    guitarhero
    Free Member

    Dead mother. Get in 😉

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    😯

    Blimey…

    stumpynya12
    Free Member

    Taking my mum on a cycle ride (only a short one) then we both win 😀

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    I can’t ride cos my son is visiting for the weekend. 🙁

    But I don’t see him very often so the trails can wait. 🙂

    MrOvershoot
    Full Member

    Will be out riding, my mother said she would clobber me if I ever bought her anything for mothers day!

    Her take on it is that its an excuse for people who have shat on their mothers all year to somehow make it better with a tacky card & some flowers. She says just give her some respect like anyone else and that’s fine.

    My mum is ace 😀

    TandemJeremy
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    My family have never made any fuss on mothers day. I’ll probably phone her but she would not want me to cancel something to visit her

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    MrOvershoot – a wise Mum you have!

    GW
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    I’m going pub for lunch with me mum tomoz, but not cos it’s some commercialised event which is really about buying cheesy tat.

    Yeah, you keep believing that 🙄

    For me Mother’s day is about my kids telling their mothers they’re special/appreciated. We went for a walk then cycle in the woods today to collect flowers and we made cards earlier in the week.. it doesn’t have to be comercialised if you don’t want it to be.

    DezB
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    … an excuse for people who have shat on their mothers all year….

    Bit harsh! Maybe “took their mums for granted” eh!?

    pastcaring
    Free Member

    cycle in the woods today to collect flowers

    wouldn’t the flowers be better left where thy were, so others can enjoy them? instead of just your wife…

    flippinheckler
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    No plans for riding but planing on giving the Mrs breakfast in bed, then helping the eldest bake her some cakes and cooking her a roast duck, hope to watch Paris–Roubaix while she visits her mum, but she thinks were all going so need to think of a good excuse not to go with her. Not visiting my nutjob mother as we don’t get on.

    Elfinsafety
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    Say you’ve torn your scrotal sac climbing over a barbed wire fence while you were out mounting biking, and that one of your testes has become inflamed and pustulent, and it’s weeping.

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    Yeah, you keep believing that

    Believing what?

    GW
    Free Member

    cycle in the woods today to collect flowers

    wouldn’t the flowers be better left where thy were, so others can enjoy them? instead of just your wife…
    Like who? the only flowers we found were Daffodills picked from the bottom of a railway embankment you can only view from a ploughed field then we found some rather pretty weeds to mix in with them in a part of the woods no-one goes to other than pheasant breeders/shooters. The kids know not to pick flowers from public places. oh.. and I never have or will have a wife!

    Elfinsafety
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    Yeah but what about the bees what are dying out cos wild flowers are disappearing due to farming and pollution and stuff? Don’t they need those ‘weeds’ and unseen daffodils?

    GW
    Free Member

    Shouldn’t you be off to bed? Wouldn’t want you to be late for taking mummy out tomorrow (when it just so happens to be Mothers day :roll:)

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    It being Mother’s Day is purely coincidental. We often go for Sunday pub lunch. Thankfully my mum is not someone who is bothered about such commercialised nonsense, or a Christian, believer in ancient Roman rituals etc.

    So, now you’ve finished with the silly comments, what about those bees? Hmm? What have you got to say about that then?

    rustler
    Free Member

    Presumably network rail have been recompensed for the loss of their flowers.
    Off to bed. Up early for mumsy.

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    You stay exactly where you are, Rustler. No-one goes to bed, until we sort out this business with the bees! 😡

    Ambrose
    Full Member

    Bees are good. They pollinate lots of plants and produce honey too.

    Do bees take (teensy weesy ikkle) cards to their Queen I wonder?

    GW
    Free Member

    Rustler, sleep well in the knowledge that the line was decommisssioned in the early 60s I could be wrong but I don’t think network rail was around back then.

    Elfinsafety
    Free Member

    How can he sleep, knowing you’ve willingly destroyed the natural habitat of bees?

    senorj
    Full Member

    bees are good, bees are good – there ebenezer good.

    sorry igmc.

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