I don't buy my Mum or my grans flowers on mother's day. I bought my Mum a cake stand which she wanted, a cake cook book and Jane Eyre DVD. For one of my grans I bought her a Thorntons hamper and bottle of fizz and my other gran I bought her a Clarins gift set and hand lotion.
My mum LOVES flowers.
However, I didnt buy her any today as my sisters and the grandkids all bought her flowers. I got her a dvd that she wanted, a nightie (that she also asked for) choclates and some 'smelly' candles that she always has about her bungalow.
I got the CD I wanted and a bunch of tulips that my 9 yr old daughter was so proud of because she remembered they were my favourite flowers. So yes, flowers on Mothers day were the best thing ever!
At 11 o'clock this morning you couldn't get near the checkouts at Morrisons for the hordes of young men and boys clutching bunches of flowers, looking as though they were praying for the ground to open up and swallow them. Still, I suppose they still have mothers to buy for, many of us, unfortunately, no longer have.
Agree douglas, but times have changed, dont want flowers that we can get all year round, including chocolates, feel that their is not much thought put in