According to its creator Steve Lee, the Twitter account @textsfrommum started life during "the lull between Christmas day dinner and the evening's parlour games".
"The idea was simple, my brother (@davelee) or I would tweet any text messages that we received from our Mother, who at the time was using a phone so basic that charging it was an annual activity," explains Lee.
The resulting Twitter feed is both utterly delightful and completely recognisable to anyone whose mother is A Certain Age and thus texts in BLOCK CAPITALS using a a style which can probably only be described as MUMSPEAK.
Steve and Dave's mum texts them about dinner options -
Weekend arrangements -
(Although sometimes those arrangements aren't always clear)
And who among us hasn't promised to help their parents with their computer problems?
Or had a parent looking out for our welfare?
Mr Lee also gets the occasional mention -
Steve and Dave's mum watches the Brits -
And 'The Apprentice' -
She celebrates Halloween (sort of) -
And likes going to the movies -
We do indeed love you for that, Mrs Lee. Keep up the good (texting) work!