They are, Dwer thought, wishing he had paid more attention to the lessons his mother used to give Sara and Lark.

But the extent of the tribute that huge numbers of you have paid my mother in the last few days has been overwhelming.

They were slow to pay his 79-year-old mother who toiled in the restaurant day after day making meatballs.

"You paid my mother, not me," Cristina informed him.

He was reported to have been released after spending a couple of months in prison after paying Lama's mother a figure said to be equivalent to £31,000.

Do you pay your mother to keep quiet about it, or just to keep her away?

"You see somebody on public aid, they be paying $20 or $30 - my mother never paid less than $300," she says.

After that it was an understood thing that when my father wanted a new mistress he paid my mother accordingly.

In the final moments of the film, Shanice pays Kwame's mother a visit.

Ah we ain't but you must pay your mother too, Geoff!