Ted Lasso and Mothers
I am a great fan of the feel good Apple + TV show Ted Lasso, which if you haven’t seen it I thoroughly recommend. Ted is the most optimistic person ever, in fact he is almost pathologically so. His smile is always pasted on and his cookie cooking is sublime. The premise for the show is that Lasso, a second rate American Football coach from the US Midwest, is brought in to manage an English Premier League side Richmond FC with zero understanding of soccer at all. In fact he’s brought in to sabotage the team to upset the owner’s ex-husband, but enough of the spoilers. Ted said in one episode: ”I love meeting people’s moms. It’s like reading an instruction manual as to why they are nuts.” Ted himself has the occasional bolt loose too, the word screw being too small for his monster hang ups. It’s a wonderful life affirming watch, with some amazing supporting characters. In fact just writing about it makes me smile
But mothers get a raw deal in the media. I was looking for good news stories about the maternal ones and by jings I had to wade through terrible stories about mothers. One story was a mom allowing their young child a gun to threaten their kindergarten teacher. Another mother, also in the USA who put her baby in the oven to warm it up, not a great idea. There seems to be a dislike of good news stories and a great deal of cynicism about moms. Our Victorian forebears put mothers on a pedestal, but later generations seem to have kicked the pedestal away. But surely the truth lies in between, not adulation, but appreciation. If you have kids you know that it involves sacrifice and worry long after the little ones have flown the nest, so sometimes it’s good to step back and think about your parents and see what they have done for you. So when it’s Mother’s Day it’s worth giving it more than just a passing thought and spending a couple of quid on a soppy card you are half embarrassed to buy.
Which is why when we at James Pirie put our thinking caps on to put together a medley of lovely gifts for mothers we made sure they were affordable and delightful. And you can personalise them too. So mum can put it somewhere on view and she can have the bragging rights about her lovely child, daughter or son-in-law, grandchild, or even great grand kids. So please take a gander at the Honeysuckle Posy Vase Royal Scot Crystal in a presentation box. It’s on at half price. You can add your own beautifully engraved message. You can get it gift wrapped for free. You can get it delivered for free. And did I mention you can get it at half price? That’s a lot of halves. But that’s the only half-measure you get from us.
PLEASE ALLOW 7-10 DAYS FOR PERSONALISED ITEMS
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