Bugged

The sun was shining this morning, and I spent some hours in the garden. As I was planting the raised beds, I saw lots of firebugs on the wood, most of them mating. 

Later, I went grocery shopping for my mother and us, and went to my mother’s house for coffee. 

In Germany it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, but my mother never liked to celebrate it. Although she has forgotten many things about her life, she still remembers this dislike of a holiday that has been introduced to Germany by nationalists, as a means to encourage women to bear more children and forget about all that emancipation nonsense.

So I only brought her a little present today, a glass of local honey, and didn’t mention Mother’s Day at all.