Ellen Wallace
I’m one of those people who loathes the commercialization of holidays, but I still fall for the gimmicks and spend money on Christmas trees. Now it’s the season for Mother’s Day, always confusing if you live in one country and have a mother in another, where the day is celebrated on different dates. This year it falls on the same date in Switzerland and the US: this Sunday, 11 May (hint, hint). France celebrates mothers at the end of May and Britain’s Mothering Day is already behind us this year.
I received a press release about Hallmark’s latest, recordable cards that let you send a card with music and a message with your voice. I realized that if I received one of these from my son, thousands of kilometres away, I would probably play and replay it! For my part, I tend to send photos of flowers, especially tulips, to Gran in the UK.
The strangest thing about the press release, however, is that the company must have let an advertising person slip into the media room because it ends with this curious sentence: "Mother
GenevaLunch, 7 May 2008.
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Tags: festivals, food, France, Garden, international, Mother's Day, Switzerland, UK
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