Get out your best tableware for Mother’s Day

Carol O’Callaghan proposes an alternative Mother’s Day, which usually just creates more work for hard-pressed mums.

One of the whispered complaints by mothers on Mother’s Day is that, for all the thoughtful gifts carefully chosen and given, it’s like any other day with cooking and washing up.

And maybe even more so if the descent of adult children and grandchildren, and getting the house straight after they leave, means even more work for the very person whose day it is meant to be.