When was the last time your OH bought you flowers?

Not very often as I buy fresh flowers every week for the house but I usually get a beautiful bouquet on my birthday and our wedding anniversary. It took me years to get him to understand less is more with flowers - I like a few blooms all one colour or at a push 2 colours not a great big colourful sheaf especially if it contains dyed flowers - nasty!!!

Last week. No special occasion - just flowers. Doesn't happen very often though! I get flowers from DD more often than DH. But he is very good in all sorts of ways and I don't know what I would do without him! The first time he bought me flowers - actually, flower, singular - was from a very expensive florist in Berkeley Square, next to the building I worked in at the time. 'One perfect rose' (as Dorothy Parker put it) was all he could afford! Bless!

18th August. It was our fourth wedding anniversary.

I can't remember. Just as well because they will come with an apology! '

Two weeks ago tomorrow - it was our 44th anniversary .

I remember clearly the first time he bought me flowers too, when we were courting. It wasn't a special occasion, and I was so delightedly surprised at the romantic gesture. My face lit up as I thanked him.
His response? "Well I was buying some for my mother and they were so cheap I thought I might as well get some for you as well." And he wasn't joking!

One of the things I love about living here, giving flowers is just a normal thing, even a friend coming for coffee will bring flowers.
SO often brings them and at the moment I have 5 vases of flowers in the garden room, gifts from friends who attended a BBQ I organised on Sunday.
Ha SO just arrived for lunch had done some shopping for me and bought flowers.

The only time he has bought me flowers was on my return from a 'girls' away' short break with my Dd - the first time we had done that. Kitchen full of flowers I think he thought I might be leaving him! He takes it in his stride now.

Last Sunday, they were a peace offering though !

He does occasionally buy flowers just because and on our anniversary he tries to find roses in the colour as those that were in my wedding bouquet. That's about the extent of his romantic gestures.

Oh, he did buy 'me' a soap dish the other week whilst he was in a DIY shop.

Rarely flowers, but there are usually some bought with the grocery shop which we think of as for us both. He likes them too. . I get tea and often breakfast in bed, he cleans the bathroom, deals with anything heavy, hoovers, irons. Anything I don't have time to do. The best thing is if we are out and it's pouring with rain he will leave me in a dry spot and fetch the car from where it's parked. More than happy with that.

1971 - when my youngest son was born. And he sent DD in with them.

But it doesn't matter - he will suddenly, out of the blue, arrive home with something I hadn't realised I needed or wanted. or, more likely, an Amazon parcel will arrive.

We have just celebrated our Golden Wedding, so a few flowers mean nothing to that!

Well, DD3 is 28 so that will be errm - 28 years ago! I buy flowers for the house every week anyway.

But, a few days ago I pulled back the duvet to get into bed to find a CD I had been lusting over in my space!

for anyone feeling the lack!

No, not really, and not cut flowers, but he regularly buys me orchid plants for the house, usually two, they last ages, and then he buys new ones, but always tries to get colours that I like, so I guess that after 45 years of marriage, that is a wee bit romantic after all!

My memory won't stretch that far back.

DH regards offering to peel the potatoes a romantic gesture