Work and home come together

Bizarrely, I've been working on a couple of articles about how Royal Mail delivers flowers so that they arrive fresh and undamaged. Then, today, I received my own floral card (a thank you from my parents for Christmas) through the post. It's beautiful:

Now I can see for myself what a good job the suppliers and postmen do between them. Odd when two parts of your world collide. Sometimes it's easy, as a writer, to be detached from your subjects and that's a good thing. At other times, there's a synergy which is out of your own control.