OT: Flowers/Fruit Basket delivery in UK?

[(PeteCresswell)]

I've got somebody from Wells (west of London) that's in a hospital.

I want to send a basket of fruit and some flowers to them, but don't have a clue
where to start. Have done it within the USA, but never tried international.

Anybody in the NG from the London area have some input?
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PeteCresswell

 

[Jasper Janssen]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:55:26 -0800, "(PeteCresswell)" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I've got somebody from Wells (west of London) that's in a hospital.
>
>I want to send a basket of fruit and some flowers to them, but don't have a clue
>where to start. Have done it within the USA, but never tried international.
>
>Anybody in the NG from the London area have some input?

I'm not in London, but the canonical european flower delivery service is
www.fleurop.com/. Basically it's the florist's organisations banding
together, you order at your local florist (or via the website), and their
local florist will send it out. If you've got specific wishes, which might
be hard to fill, you might want to offer them some alternatives as well,
but 'nice big bouquet, with card saying [blah]' will generally do
reasonably well.

Jasper

 

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(PeteCresswell) wrote:
> I've got somebody from Wells (west of London) that's in a hospital.
>
> I want to send a basket of fruit and some flowers to them, but don't have a clue
> where to start. Have done it within the USA, but never tried internati onal.
>
> Anybody in the NG from the London area have some input?

Betty's by Post for English cakes, cookies, and the like.
<www.bettysbypost.com>

Fruitcake yes, fruit no. For that try googling "fruit baskets" post UK
delivery
I saw many results come up, e.g. <www.cityfruits.com> frrom
<www.splut.com/003/003-003.htm>


Get well soon to your friend from RBT..

 

[Stan Cox]

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
> I've got somebody from Wells (west of London) that's in a hospital.
>
> I want to send a basket of fruit and some flowers to them, but don't have a clue
> where to start. Have done it within the USA, but never tried international.
>
> Anybody in the NG from the London area have some input?
Not sure about the fruit but interflora will do the flowers.
http://www.interflora.co.uk


Stan Cox

 

[POHB]

http://www.interflora.co.uk/ are the obvious choice for flowers in the UK

You could try this lot for fruit but they may only do regular deliveries
http://www.abel-cole.co.uk/

BTW, interesting international perspective on UK geography,
Wells is indeed west of London, but then so is most of the UK
I guess the other side of England doesn't seem so far when you're from
somewhere so vast as the US
Sorry, I'm rambling...


"(PeteCresswell)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I've got somebody from Wells (west of London) that's in a hospital.
>
> I want to send a basket of fruit and some flowers to them, but don't have
> a clue
> where to start. Have done it within the USA, but never tried
> international.
>
> Anybody in the NG from the London area have some input?
> --
> PeteCresswell

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per POHB:
>BTW, interesting international perspective on UK geography,
>Wells is indeed west of London, but then so is most of the UK
>I guess the other side of England doesn't seem so far when you're from
>somewhere so vast as the US
>Sorry, I'm rambling...

Kind of like Hawaii (or, at least Oahu): Everything's drivable within a day.

Was hitch-hiking back to Hickam AFB once and this local guy picked me up.

He asked "Have you ever been to San Francisco".

I replied, "No, I'm from Philadelphia.".

He thought about it for a minute and then said "What? you only hang around your
own neighborhood?".

Moot anyhow - found out the guy's in a Bristol hospital...
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PeteCresswell