Mother’s Day and is on its way, and it seems that I’ve booked my trip home to co-incide with Mothering Sunday. What luck. Now I’m going to have to pull my finger out and buy her a Mother’s day card. I can’t buy her one of the many ecards available because she isn’t connected to the internet.

The obvious solution, then, is to buy her a computer. Also, I would need to buy her an internet connection too. Which is expensive. I’d also have to teach her how to use the internet and open ecards. This is easy, but overall, I think it’s better to simply buy her a traditional card.

Perhaps next year, when I’m a rich man – tra-la-la-la-la – I’ll return home with a computer, an internet connection and bundle load of ecards for her.

Until then it’s simply a case of going into a card shop and buying a card of the paper (in fact card) variety.