Back in late November at that moment where all eyes are fully on Christmas orders, I received a call asking if I could provide flowers for the new series of The Responder on BBC1.

I love TV and Film work, it’s completely different to wedding/funeral work for obvious reasons. There’s the brief, which usually gets the creative juices flowing. In this scenario, it’s a holy communion scene, for a lower middle class family. Flower colours predominantly white, with a hint of yellow, and the flowers should be nice, but not too over the top. The season very much not Christmas.

Four meadow arrangements to sit on the steps leading to the altar, one arrangement that has to be three feet tall, and a selection of bud vases for the buffet table. The thing with TV stuff is that things change quickly, so at 7pm the day before I’m due to drop them off, another call to add a couple of pedestal arrangements which means going back to the wholesaler at the crack of dawn, making them and then travelling to Bootle to get everything ready.

Arriving at the church, it was full of people and for a moment I did wonder if they had started filming. But no, they were just lovely people using a church for it’s intended purposes. The church warden met me and said ‘you look like a flower lady’, I’m not entirely sure what that look is? Frazzled? perhaps! Then home to walk the dog in the dark. Six months later you see your flowers on screen, it’s a fleeting mere seconds on screen and then you realise just how hard the film makers work, and their incredible attention to detail. It’s a cracking series, and must see. Can’t wait to see what my next job is!