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The award-winning South Wales business the Jenkins Bakery has released details of its Mother's Day range of products.  "Everyone knows mums are special," said the Jenkins Bakery's operations director Russell Jenkins. "There's gifts galore out there for Mothering Sunday, but we have found our own very special way of saying 'I Love You' to mums. "Make your mam a cup of tea and give her one of our special Mother's Day cakes to sample - she'll love it." The Jenkins Bakery staff have produced three special products to mark the occasion - Mothering Sunday is on Sunday, March 30, 2014. MUM CUP CAKES £1.00 Our moist plain cup cake topped with various flavoured frostings and a hand decorated sugar paste disk.  MUM HEART SPONGE £4.00 A luxury lemon sponge flooded with flavoured fudge icing, hand decorated and gift wrapped. MUM BISCUITS 85p Luxury Shortbread Biscuit Heart Shaped Hand Decorated Sugar Paste Disk and Gift Wrapped....

Nice story in the South Wales Evening Post today - Aberglasney Gardens in Top 10 places to visit for Mothering Sunday.

Award-winning South Wales business The Jenkins Bakery has released details of its Mother's Day range of products.  "Everyone knows mums are special," said the Jenkins Bakery's operations director Russell Jenkins. "There's gifts galore out there for Mothering Sunday, but we have found our own very special way of saying 'I Love You' to mums. "Make your mam a cup of tea and give her one of our special Mother's Day cakes to sample - she'll love it." The Jenkins Bakery staff have produced two special products to mark the occasion - Mum Cup Cakes (90p), a moist cup cake topped with vanilla flavour filling cream and a hand decorated sugar paste disk. Mum Heart Sponge (£3.20), a luxury red velvet muffin sponge flooded with flavoured fudge icing, hand decorated and gift wrapped. The Mother's Day specials will be available throughout the Jenkins Bakery shop network from Tuesday, March 13. The Jenkins bakery employs 300 peopl...

It’s a case of ‘say it with flowers’ with a difference for Mothering Sunday at Aberglasney House and Gardens in the picturesque Tywi Valley. Mums are being offered free admission for both the Saturday and the Sunday of Mothering Sunday weekend (Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18). “We all know mums are special, so we thought we’d do something special for the Mothering Sunday weekend at the gardens,” said Aberglasney chief executive Roger Evans, pictured above. “It’s a special way of saying it with flowers as they will get to enjoy the glorious spring displays we have here at Aberglasney. “There’s plenty to see in our historic heritage gardens and if sons and daughters want to pick up some other extra-special presents there are plenty of gifts and plants available at our shop.” “Most people like to tie-in a stroll around the gardens with a visit to the shop,” said shop manager Vanessa Bolton. “But, in this very busy age, time is precious and we appreciate that many people j...