With Valentine’s Day over, the supermarkets are already discounting heavily on Easter eggs! I saw 3 for £5.00 the other day: My issue with this (apart from the fact that they are again undercutting the small, independent retailer) is that the supermarkets enable us to buy as much chocolate as we need to treat our families but we are then forced to endure a lengthy period when we can’t eat it!
This is not the willing undertaking of self-denial Lent is supposed to be, which is then rewarded at Easter, but rather a test of resolve imposed by the supermarkets and their dastardly discounting! Anyway, I am writing about Easter because I have just been to Bicester Village, the excellent outlet centre near(ish) Oxford and was amazed to see that none of the shops was advertising Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday is on the 14th March, just over two weeks away and the offerings are not yet available (unless you want to give her a cut-price chocolate egg). Having navigated the minefield of Valentine’s Day, now is the time to focus on the other most important woman in your life. Fortunately, Pam has been working very hard on our Mother’s Day food gifts so we can keep you in the good books! Click here for further details.
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