# When is Mother's Day in the UK this year?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619 "2005-04-16T10:44:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619/1 "2005-04-16T10:44:49Z")

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Could someone on that side of the pond check their calendar for me? If my memory is right, it’s earlier in the year than here in the US.

I hope we didn’t miss it already.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619/2 "2005-04-16T11:37:59Z")

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Been and gone sorry ☹

It always falls **before** Easter, this year it was 6th March.

(It was originally known as ‘Mothering Sunday’ and the idea was that servants got a day off to visit their ‘mother church’ and, coincidentally, their own mothers.)

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**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619/3 "2005-04-16T11:45:03Z")

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Dammit!

Well, at least I have a MIL who understands that the holidays are different here. Still, I feel bad.

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**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619/4 "2005-04-16T11:46:13Z")

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Dammit!

Well, at least I have a MIL who understands that the holidays are different here. Still, I feel bad.

And thank you so much for replying, **Cat**.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-mothers-day-in-the-uk-this-year/299619/5 "2005-04-16T12:16:53Z")

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Any time. And here’s a useful [site](http://www.thorntons.co.uk/) for such occasions, you will be forgiven anything 🙂

(They only deliver to the UK but I’m pretty sure I’ve used my ‘foreign’ bank card to pay - apologies if I’m wrong.)