Edel Coffey: This will be my second year not buying a Mother’s Day card.

Mother’s Day can stir up all sorts of feelings and there are lots of reasons, not just death or loss or grief, that can make it a difficult time for people

We can be ambushed by our emotions by something as small as seeing a Mother’s Day display in the supermarket while doing the weekly shop.

I subscribe to a few newsletters that I have no business subscribing to, emails from fashion houses like Chanel, fancy hotels like The Ritz in Paris, and luxury stationery companies like Smythson. 

I see these emails as a form of online daydreaming, a little starlit tour around an alternative reality, before returning to earth.