Anyone cancelling planned rides because it's Mothers Day tomorrow?
Not cancelling, just not accepting the invite. 🙁
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
entertained my Mum for the last two days so tomorrow is free 🙂
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. 🙁
It's only one day so not riding.
Riding before 7, left kids instructions on how the toaster works
Yep no ride, been off the bike for a week but mothers day plus my sons 2nd Bday = no riding!!!
Going to visit her after the ride. Pitlochry is on the way home so it fits in nicely.
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?
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.
just another bullshit day, made up by the card companies!
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 😛
just another bullshit day, made up by the card companies
Christian 'festival' actually - [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday[/url]
I'll be riding in the afternoon and having the folks round for dinner. Win win.
just another bullshit day, made up by the christians
better?
I thought it was a Roman festival and then surprise surprise Christianity adopted it.
Riding during the day, parenting during the evening, civilised.
Dead mother. Get in 😉
😯
Blimey...
Taking my mum on a cycle ride (only a short one) then we both win 😀
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. 🙂
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 😀
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
MrOvershoot - a wise Mum you have!
Yeah, you keep believing that 🙄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.
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.
[I]... an excuse for people who have shat on their mothers all year....[/I]
Bit harsh! Maybe "took their mums for granted" eh!?
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...
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.
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 [i]weeping[/i].
Yeah, you keep believing that
Believing what?
cycle in the woods today to collect flowerswouldn'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!
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?
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:)
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?
Presumably network rail have been recompensed for the loss of their flowers.
Off to bed. Up early for mumsy.
You stay exactly where you are, Rustler. No-one goes to bed, until we sort out this business with the bees! 😡
Bees are good. They pollinate lots of plants and produce honey too.
Do bees take (teensy weesy ikkle) cards to their Queen I wonder?
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.
How can he sleep, knowing you've willingly destroyed the natural habitat of bees?
bees are good, bees are good - there ebenezer good.
sorry igmc.
We're going to ride to my mums, saw her on Friday anyway, but then we keep in touch regular as it is.
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.
It will still belong to NR unless someone else bought it, I'm sure they'll not mind and the Bees will survive given the amount that's out at the moment.
I took her out for a meal yesterday evening, as she hates it when you go out on Mothers Day and everywhere is rammed and full of screaming kids. So the plan was to hit either the Peaks or a (Quiet) Welsh trail centre . But unfortunaetly the wheels came off this cunning plan when after I'd dropped them off at home I bumped into a mate I had'nt seen for ages and ended up consuming far too much ale.....
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Why did I say I'll decorate a room for Mothers Day! Such nice weather!
Hic . . . excvuse m,e 😉 . I got banished from the kitchen and sent out on a ride 😀 while my son cooked . . . mmmmmmmmmm, just polished off Italian potatoes in olive oil and herbs, home made burgers with cheese and mushrooms, home made beer-battered cod and baby mushrooms in cream sauce 😛 . Now he's busy making pains au chocolat 😛 Cheers Vaughan!! 😀
My Mum is enjoying a break in Spain with my sister so just spoken to her on skype 😀
A friend went round to her estranged husband's place this morning to pick up her 7yr old son as planned, but the arsehole had taken him out for the day. He always does this kind of shit - such an arse.
As for me, managed to accrue a whole load of credits over the last couple of weekends and was given a 4hr bike pass. Just got back 😀 and now sorting out roast duties.
Just back from a 50 mile round trip to see mother in 'that there London' a trip which involved less than 3 miles of tarmac, the rest being riverside paths, canalside paths, parks, and cheeky urban tracks.
No, there were no 'mountains' but still delightful scenery and interesting riding.
Win win situation 😀
Yeah, but surely everyone you encountered was really unfriendly or something, HD? 😉
Has Mamadirt bin on the cooking sherry [i]already[/i]?? 😯
Yeah, but surely everyone you encountered was really unfriendly or something, HD?
worst I got was a bunch of kids saying my bike was well wikkid innit, everyone else was full of cosmopolitan charm and sophistication - but that may have been the result of one riverside pub stop too many 😕
A couple of people had the audacity to be friendly and chat to me mum and I when we were outside.
I mean, it's just not on, is it?
I hope you put them right with a moody stare and edgy remark - friendly, in the City of Grime and Hate, wouldn't have happened in my day......
i got a card flowers and choclolates off my son and a nice card off my daughter...much appreciated... 😉