If March comes in smiling and gay
Saddle your horses and go and buy hay.
March, Hic, Hac, Ham'
Comes in like a lion
And goes out like a lamb.
If March comes in stormy and black, she carries the winter away on her back.
Mothering Sunday.
This is Midlent Sunday when it was the regular custom, and even now very general, for the children, especially those in service, to visit their parents on that day.
Children away from home write to their parents on Mothering Sunday if unable to get home.
A special kind of cake was made for this day.
Palm Sunday.
It is known as Fig Sunday as figs are eaten and a fig pudding is a regular dish on this day. There used to be a great display of figs in the Grocers' windows the week preceding Palm Sunday, but there is not such a show now.