Visa card versus 1500 miles

1. Since my mother can’t eat for the next two weeks or so, I thought I would send her something to smell instead; so, some random bunch of colourful flowers is on its way to her. I don’t think they smell of anything, because that doesn’t come into the description, but it looks pretty on the interflora site.

2. Do you know, blogfolks, that out of the bouquets and plants and flowers out there, the priciest ones are for funerals? I suppose people would feel too stingy and guilty not to shell out for a funeral. And it’s not like after the ceremony you feel like taking them home with you and use them as a centrepiece at dinner, or anything.

3. I’m finding that fact rather wrong, somehow. But then again; I’m feeling rather fragile at the moment, and I burst into tears typing the little note that gets stapled to the bouquet.