Thank you, and sorry we're some months late replying. Wanting to go straight to a florist near your aunt, rather than through some faceless middleman, is a sound instinct from the other side of the world, so let me be honest about how it worked. Lily's is a family business run from the Tweed, not a shop on Bribie Island, though the bunch itself was made by a florist in Bongaree, close to her door. Human hands nearby, which is what you were after. What stays with me is the smile. At ninety, a bouquet arriving wrapped properly with a card, from a nephew in England, says someone across the world was thinking of her that morning. She'll have shown the neighbours. Lovely that you'll send more to your people over here. Many thanks for writing.

Siobhan & Andrew Lily's Florist