Here in the UK today is Mothering Sunday (Mother's Day), but it's also International Pie Day, 3.14!

So while we're not a full time piehaus, here are some Pie pics, and a video, from our collection, of our people and custard pies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NJDuAiD2zM

International Pie Day? Really?

Canada's Mother's Day is much later in the year. Maybe we should have a pie day too!

Well technically it's International Pi Day (as in the maths Pi, 3.14259....) because if you write dates in ISO format, yyyy-mm-dd then the month-day part is 3-14. But it's close enough. One of the pics I posted is from a scene where Honeysuckle, who is a memory genius as well as a wonderful wammer, being pied in the face while reciting Pi to several hundred places - or at least trying to. Getting custard pies in the face and then dripping down all over your clothes is apparently quite distracting.



Apparently what the UK celebrates is subtly diffgerent - the US, Canada, and other countries have "Mothers Day", but we have "Mothering Sunday", which is a Church of England thing. Everyone still calls it "Mothers Day" and gives their mums cards and chocolate but the original meanings of the events are slightly different. Here it's the 4th Sunday of Lent, so it moves around each year as Easter does, and traditionally it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants, were given a day off to visit their mother and family. Long ago it was also a day when people would return to attend a service at their "mother church", the main church or cathedral of the area, instead of their local one.


Every country should celebrate pie day on the 14th of March. When it happens to coincide with Mothers Day, mums who want them get even more pies.