Winner Announcement
I have never found it so hard to pick a winner before! Thank you for all your lovely stories and precious memories. So many mums were worthy winners but I could only pick one.
Congratulations to Debbi Ruskin whose entry both brought a tear to my eye and smile to my face: “My Mum was a constant support to me & I have so many precious memories but the one I hold dear was laughing & joking with her about how she would love having some strippers as entertainment in the home where she lived out her final days. This happened when she emerged for a couple of weeks from the fog that had clouded her mind for the previous few years – she passed away a couple of months later but that time with my real Mum again was wonderful x If I won I would give this to the lovely lady who has made me a grandmother 🙂 ”
Mother’s Day may be a few weeks away (26th March), but I thought I would get this competition started early so the prize can be delivered in time for Mother’s Day itself! This competition is open to sons and daughters, or anyone who knows a special mum who deserves a little treat.
The prize will be a Mother’s Day bouquet of your choice from Bunches.co.uk up to the value of £20. All of their bouquets come with free chocolates too! You can find out how to enter the competition below.
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
Bunches offer a range of great value flowers from just £14.99 with free UK delivery. There voucher code BUNMDAY17 will get you 10% off too! Here’s a few Mother’s Day gift ideas they have available:
Say it with flowers
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Flowers every year? Try Planters or Hampers instead
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Is she not a fan of pink?
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Mother’s Day Competition
To enter the competition, it’s simple. Just comment your favourite memory of your mum below. It could be something that makes you laugh to this day, or a time they helped in a way no one else ever would. Please comment by midnight on 21st March 2017.
All mums are special, but I’m afraid only one can be chosen for this competition! A winner will be announced on this page at 9am on 22nd March 2017. They must claim their prize by 4pm that day, so the bouquet can be posted out in time for Mother’s Day. Please make a reminder of this date or opt in for email reminders, if you are likely to forget to check the results. Unfortunately if you don’t claim by this deadline, no prize or cash alternative can be offered.
Good luck!
Congratulations “DEBBI RUSKIN” what a lovely memory I’m sure alot of us can relate to you’re memory in a similar kind of way.
“HAPPY MOTHERS DAY” to you and all mums out there you do an amazing job, after all where would we be without you? “Mothers day” has officially been changed to #HappyMothersMonth ?? you heard it here first. ?
Congrats Debbie.
My best memories of my mum probably involve her unconventional character. She always prefers to things her own way rather than go along with the crowd, a trait I think I’ve inherited from her. Being a trained Secondary school teacher herself, she always had strong ideas/opinions about education related things. When I was in Year 6 of Primary school, my teacher started setting us a lot of homework, and when I told my mum I couldn’t join in with something family related, because I had to do my homework, she was really cross. The next day she went up to… Read more »
Mum putting £50 down on the pool table at the pub, betting she’d beat the best guy in there… and that she did! She cleared up, he didn’t even get a shot! Later on she fell off the bar stool and dented the metal foot bar with her head, it’s still there now hahaha
Mum had always had us all for Christmas dinner and prided herself every year on laying on a good spread that was immaculately presented. It was all part of the Ceremony that I remember so well except that that one year she had forgotten to bring out the Roast Potatoes from the oven. None of us even noticed because there was so much on the plate already but Mum suddenly realised right near the end of eating it all and let out a wail and run off towards the back porch. We all gave it a moment before going after… Read more »
The bedtime stories my mum made up for me almost 50 years ago, I can still remember them and now tell them to my grandchildren
That she is hopeless at cooking but still tries really hard. Liquid sausages anyone?
watching my mum doing the washing up with her parrot, Barney, on her shoulder!
The memory I’m most proud of my mum, By the time I was 18 years old I had lost who I was and had been through alot, I caused problems left right and centre not just for myself but also for my family, despite all of this and the nasty things I said to my mum whilst growing up when I needed her most she was there for me. I remember the day we started saying “I love you” to each other again like before when I was her baby boy, it made me feel like I was worth something… Read more »
going to work with my mum was a fond memory of mine
this is for Maureen, she’s not my real mum but close enough! She took me in to her home including my dog! Constantly makes me laugh and I think she deserves a special thankyou! Her family don’t bother about her which is very sad as she’s a lovely 85 yr old lady! thanks Maureen xx
Loved it when I used to visit my mum we go shopping but sadly she passed away nearly 11 years ago miss those times
My favourite Mummy memories are of when we used to do the washing up together after a big sunday roast. It was a quite time when I could chat about my week at school and we always managed to have a giggle about something!
I miss those days!
Being my best friend & treating me as an equal including her acting like a child & dressing up as a black & whiteam minstrel (which she trulyou suited seeing as she has affro hair to begin with. It grew like a crash helmet & in the 70’same it was nearly as big as OJ Sampsons in the Police Squad/Airplane film I think it was where he has to walk through a door sideways cos his hair was so big. Priscilla Presley was girlfriend of the mad funny cop whose name has just slipped my mind where he done a… Read more »
My best memory of my mum was when she said that she wasn’t cooking dinner that night and was getting a take away.
My mum was a terrible cook. I dreaded dinner at home.
Eveytime she called us for dinner I would be in almost tears at what unrecognisable and unedible food she had made us that night.
Probably not the story you looking for but that’s the only good memory I got.
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My nan was a great cook, roast potatoes too die for. So spent as much time at hers for dinner as I could.
The best memory I have of my Mother is……when we were young we would go to Morcombe every Easter to go on the fair…buy tacky ..but treasured trinkets hah..hahaha .and ..of course…bars and bars of Morcombe rock….we ..all four of us…managed to convince the Mother to go on a ride with us…it’s not fast Mum or high..we promise. It was the rollercoaster..hahaha…as we reached the top of the first drop the Mother realised we had duped her…off came the glasses…followed by screams and threats that we were going to pay.. we laughed so hard all the way through the ride… Read more »
I think the memory that has made the most impact on me is from last year. I’ve spent 9 years not being well and during that time I’ve been ignored and fobbed off by doctors and specialists, but my mother has always stood by me and believed me even when no one else would. Last year, after a few diagnoses and a surgery that didn’t go so well, I got a call one evening from my surgeon saying I would need an ileostomy and a stoma bag. I think I had bottled things up for so long and the accumulation… Read more »
All the cooking and baking i think. Many happy memories
My best memory is of snuggling up and being told stories, this was the only time my mum had time to spend with me and my siblings, as she was a mother of 6 girls, she worked full time and was a single parent.
My mum booked a little break for us to Mablethorpe in Durham, so she thought, turned out to be the Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire so we had a trip in a taxi to get there all very exciting for us kids. It was a good place to holiday.