Flowers for mothers day

Living overseas means that gifting presents can get a bit tricky and recently the postage hasn't been reliable, I had a package returned from Austria and 2 Christmas presents never made it here because the UK has tightened up its posting regulations - I should add that both parcels were within regulations but they still got returned to sender with the offending item - nail polish! removed!

Anyway, I end up relying on internet based services a lot of the time, back in the day Interflora was the only choice but now there is a much bigger range. 

Debenhams Flowers contacted me and asked if I would like to try out their Flower Delivery service, so I got a surprise Scented Spring bouquet sent to my mom. It was really funny, I happened to be chatting on Facetime with her when they were delivered, she kept saying it must be a mistake, why had someone sent her flowers - anyone would have thought she'd never had flowers before!

They arrived packaged in a box and looked lovely when she got them out. Unfortunately she never got around to taking photos because my step dad got rushed back into hospital, taking photos for my blog wasn't really high on the priority list!

But she did say that they smell gorgeous and the scent fills the whole house, which is perfect in gloomy February. They were delivered over a week ago and they are still going strong!

Debenhams Flowers also a 25% discount for you! 

Whoo-hoo, so if you are in the UK or you're planning on sending your mom flowers you can use the discount code DFBLOG25 and get the discount on their Mothers Day Flowers (doesn't include the Flowers by post range) and with the money you save you can treat yourself to something special!

How was yours?

It has taken some work but my guys now know how to treat a mom on mothers day! I know from seeing facebook updates that there are some mamas out there that got sod all and their husbands did nothing - I don't want those people to think that I am rubbing salt into the wound  here, I have been there, I have had that day, but a big heart to heart with my husband helped clear the air  and he now knows that he will get treated with equal respect on father's day. Blokes - they don't think like us, sometime we have to help it sink in - you know what I mean!

I got up yesterday morning and got told to go back to bed! Then I got invited down for breakfast...

Then we went over to the local nature reserve and had a walk around. I showed Ebi-kun how to use the macro option on his camera, he was fascinated by the bees and once he understood that they wouldn't attack him for no good reason, he was happy to get in there.

For lunch we headed to an out of the way Italian restaurant, it is lovely, the food is delicious - my starter was tomato gelato and basil toast, surprisingly good!

After a delicious lunch we drove over to the ice-cream farm but took a walk down by the river to work up an appetite first! It is such a shame the weather isn't like this all summer, beautiful, warm but not hot and not humid!

A posy of flowers - the red ones are clover candles I think, there was a sign saying we could pick them, the whole area was a buzzing with bees. Love this picture!

And of course, we had to have ice-cream and visit all the animals and ebi-kun attempted to learn how to unicycle, luckily, we left with no broken bones.

 Then it was back home, the boys went to play footie in the park for a bit and I finished off sorting out the studio, we finished off with more food! Homemade pizza and beer in the garden.

Thank you Ebi-kun and daddy, it was a lovely day. Mothers day is on a different day back in the UK so my mom had already had her 'day'.