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With the longest day of the year fast approaching, it’s reassuring to know that, on the basis of our statistics at least, fewer people are in hospital in summer than in winter.
The reason we’re able to say this is that we run a website sending gifts to people in hospital on behalf of friends and family who can’t visit the patient in person. Sales via the website in late Spring and Summer are regularly 20% or so lower than in late Autumn and Winter, and January is the month when we send the most gifts.
No great surprises here. Most of us, I am sure, would choose not to spend these long light evenings in hospital.
The website we run makes a small contribution to the Hope and Homes for Children charity. Our business is sending gifts to people in hospital on behalf of friends and family who can’t visit the patient in person, and we make a donation to Hope and Homes for Children every time someone places an order through the website.
Home and Homes for Children does a great deal of excellent work in those parts of the world where children are most vulnerable by giving new life to children who would otherwise be left in bleak state-run orphanages and other such institutions. They also do a lot of work supporting people with HIV and families who have lost parents through AIDS.
It was therefore a great pleasure when last Saturday we attended a dinner and ball held by local Home and Homes for Children supporters in aid of the charity. Apart from raising much needed funds, it was a most enjoyable evening: great company, good food, the beautiful setting of one of the fundraisers’ garden and a wonderful convivial atmosphere.
What is the ideal lucky mascot to have with you in hospital, sitting at your bedside, offering comfort as well as bringing good luck? Many people would probably choose their own pets if only that were possible. But as the next best thing, cuddly toys seem to go a long way towards achieving the right result. And most popular of all remains the teddy bear.
We have some knowledge of all this because we run a website sending gifts to people in hospital on behalf of friends and family who can’t visit the patient in person. The site offers a wide range of gifts to choose from, but cuddly toys are always among the most popular gifts. It’s understandable – flowers or chocolates or toiletries make excellent presents for people when they’re sick, but they’re not exactly lucky mascots! Only cuddly toys can claim that role.
Not surprisingly, it tends to be smallish teddy bears, who can sit comfortably on a bedside cabinet, that are the most popular hospital mascots of all.
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