Mother’s Day

UK Mother’s Day is this Sunday, March 19, so don’t forget the flowers, chocolates and extra goodies for your mothers this weekend. Mother’s Day takes place on the fourth Sunday of March, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday.

In the UK a Mother’s Day tradition is that of baking a simnel cake, a light fruit cake with two layers of marzipan. As Mother’s Day falls in between lent this is known and represents a relaxation fasting rules tarditionally also known as Refreshment Sunday.

If you are unsure on what colours to wear this Sunday green is known to represent the protective nature of mothers, while yellow alludes to an optimistic outlook towards life for children. Coincidentally the date for UK Mother’s Day this year is the same day as the Spanish Father’s Day. Spanish Mother’s Day is on May 7.

Proverb Of The Week

Andratx mayor Estefanía Gonzalo declared that the measure is aimed at benefiting existing residents so that they “do not have to leave the municipality due to the high prices for buying and selling homes.”

A points system will be introduced to assess applications for the grants, taking into account how long applicants have lived in the town and with higher scores for those who have been there the longest.

The scheme is expected to reach more residents than a previous aid package launched by the regional government, offering to cover 20 per cent of mortgages for first ­ time buyers of properties valued at less than €270,000 ­ a mere 5.2 per cent of all houses on sale in Andratx.

A TEAM from the Balearic Island University (UIB) is leading a European project to combat obesity. Entitled ‘HealthyW8’, investigators will work with children, young people and pensioners to find ways to solve a problem that is currently said to affect more than 30 per cent of the European population.

As well as the UIB team, the project features collaborators from Denmark, Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Portugal and Bulgaria.

‘HealthyW8’ is financed by the Horizon Europe programme with a total budget of €10 million, of which the UIB will obtain €579,000 to be managed by the Healthcare Investigation Institute of the Balearic Islands. The project aims to tackle obesity using digital technology and taking into account the personal context, environment, dietary preferences, physical condition and emotions of participants in the study.

Meaning that the voice is an amazing gift, both a privilege and a responsibility that should be used. The origin of this proverb is unknown but can be dated to back to the time of Shakespeare’s Othello, The Speeches and Silences of Women.

It will target the population groups most at risk of the disease, including schoolchildren aged five to 10 and their parents, young adults aged 18 to 25, and pensioners aged over 65. The study will be carried out over one year and is expected to start on June 1.