Apart from the fact that I evidently like plants I don't really like cut flowers and would be
a bit woeful to receive them, although I'd be very polite of course. I'm a little like Dogmatix
(from Asterix cartoons) howling at trees being damaged when it comes to cut flowers.
Why not give a plant (which will continue grow) and leave the flowers (which won't, much)
in peace.
Mine's a subscription to a magazine and a nice meal. Hold the flowers
If you've got a printer why not go over to Oxfam or one of those goat-purchasing sites
and buy him a sponsorship pack for some useful cause - the actual card 'gift' takes a
couple of days to turn up but you can at least print something out and give it to him in
a card (come to think of it you could rustle one of those up too). I bought my dad a
festive goat and he was quite chuffed with a picture of it and the idea that someone
else was having to feed it and mop up after it.
Similarly buying a tree on behalf of someone for planting somewhere or other - they do
a similar thing. Or google "gift emergency help" and see if some enterprising company
has come up with some other suggestions.
Jo, whose favourite flower is self-raising (b'doom-tish)
