If we’re lucky enough to still have our mums, do we really do enough to see the whole ‘her’? The older we get, the more time melts like an ice cube through our fingers and there will one day be questions we might dearly wished we’d asked.... About her childhood or what she was like in her teenage years perhaps, the values that helped shape her, her obsession with baking muffins even... If thoughtful gifts stem from showing you know someone, try these ideas...

For anyone, a good soak in the bath or a little pampering can do us good... but for mums who have spent a lifetime loving others, they perhaps crave it more than most. So for wonderful wellbeing gifts of all kinds, give a moment's peace and quiet.