MOTHERING Sunday is nearly upon us, the time of year when we grateful sons and daughters shower the woman who gave birth to us with love, affection and prezzies. But do we feel the same way about our dear partner’s mother?

In the time-honoured tradition of Les Dawson, pictured, and his ilk, Diary here publishes a couple of Les’s jokes to help those of us spending this Sunday with our better half’s mater.

• “The wife’s mother said, ‘When you’re dead, I’ll dance on your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I’m being buried at sea’.”

• “I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said, ‘Keep her moving sir, we’re stock-taking’.”

• “I can always tell when the mother-in-law’s coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps”.

• “I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said, ‘Aren’t you going to help?’ I said, ‘No, six should be enough’.”