The choices were a pair of woollen gloves, a rain jacket, a set of thermals and a nice, new pair of gumboots: all excellent ways of keeping hard-working mum out on the farm in the cold weather. This old mutt is not sure if any bloke in the rural hinterland was brave enough to buy one of these ‘practical gifts’, but suggest these ideas would have gone down about as well as giving the good lady an ironing board or a vacuum cleaner for Mothers’ Day. Practical ideas but very, very stupid.