Fathers Day Flowers

It is father’s day soon and I have started thinking about presents. Not just for my dad but this year for the for the first time in my life, what my daughter might buy for me.

Being only  11 months old she is a bit too young to go shopping on her own so I  have been debating whether it is ok to raid baby’s bank account, where we put her child benefit, to buy myself a new pair of jeans. After all what is better –  her future education or for her not be embarrassed by her father looking like a tramp when he picks her up from nursery? I am sure you will agree that it is the latter.\r\n\r\nJust in case the above proposal is rejected by wifey I have also been looking for father days gifts. In doing so  I came across adverts for father’s day flowers. It had never crossed my mind to buy flowers for my father. I always buy flowers online for my mum  but not my dad. I think he’d think there was something wrong with me if I turned up with a bouquet. My dad prefers being taken for a beer and being given a set of spanners or some other metal manly thing. “Flowers are for women, son” he’d say. But now that I’m a daddy I quite like the idea. In future years if my daughter sends me flowers I’d be delighted. Just because they are pretty and smell nice, why should flowers be the preserve of the feminine?

I’m a man and I like flowers. There I’ve said it.

Although I draw the line at pot pourri.