things that bring tears to your eyes.

jillyRosa - I too agree about animals and can't watch any programmes dealing with animal neglect. Would love to watch Paul O'Grady's Battersea Dog's Home programme but know that I would cry all the way through it. I'm getting sad just thinking about it.

The film "Shadowlands" causes me to cry every time I watch it.

We never made a lot of fuss about Mother's Day in my family. Birthdays, Christmas and wedding anniversaries were celebrated vigorously with feasts, festivities and presents galore. Of course we acknowledged Mother's Day with chocolates and flowers and, once I was an independent adult, a family lunch. So it came as a great surprise to me that after my mother died, her birthday, her death day, her wedding anniversary were days that were full of thoughts and memories for me, but Mother's Day was the one when I broke my heart. Maybe that started because my only daughter lived the other side of the world – but then she lovingly contacted me on New Zealand's Mother's Day in May. Maybe it was just the title of the day and, somehow it gives we adults justification to grieve again. I don't do it on Father's Day which has always seemed a bit Hallmark Cards, but I do remember and treasure the memories of our time together and the awfulness of his death exactly five months after my wedding day.

A song that has always made me cry, even when I was a child - and to this day I don't know why it brings tears, is 'Bye. bye, Blackbird'.

Maybe it's that line, 'No one here can love or understand me...'
Such a lonely sentiment and very close to my own thoughts at the time.

You don't here it nowadays.

i cry when i think of my dog that died....sounds crazy but after being savagely attacked by a dog many years ago (im still covered in scars aged 50)this dog came into our lives about 10 years later and restored all my faith in dogs and taught me to understand their quirks and noises. She died very unexpectedly in 2012 and i was devastated. But i now have dogs...yep plural..because of her

Watching my poor mum lying there in a home slowly dying of Alzheimer's breaks my heart weekly. She is so frail and doesn't resemble the lady I knew. Sad. Dreading Mother's Day as she's getting nearer.

So sorry to hear about your mum Harris27 - some for you x