About the flowers emoticon

[heggertyhaggerty]

I just wondered, would it be pertinent to change the thing you type between the brackets so it just said 'flowers'?

I keep wanting to use them for other purposes than 'thanks', eg for someone who has been bereaved and so on...typing 'thanks' seems a bit odd.

[OliviaMumsnet]

Hello Heggerty - I posted too the first time I did it !
Will see what the other HQ bods say.
Thanks for raising.

[crazynanna]

She did,Heggerty,I saw it and sniggered

[CheeseandGherkins]

Wasn't the point of that one a thank you though rather than flowers for any other reason?

[heggertyhaggerty]

thanks Olivia I mean

Cheese, I dunno, I missed that bit, but I don't see why having it say 'flowers' would prevent it being used as a thankyou.

[Foubijou]

I'm sorry, Mary, I didn't realise it was to do with the quilting.

it was a suggestion and if it's inappropriate then please ignore it.

However if it seems a good idea I'd be glad to be allowed to use the flowers for varying purposes - I don't quite understand, were we not intended to use them unless we were involved with the quilting thread?

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi All,

for the suggestion.

The main purpose of this emoticon was to have it as a thank you, all explained here

[Foubijou]

thanks Rebecca...but does it bother people if we use it for other things too?

[DeeScent]

I wanted to "give" a poster some on a thread as a sort of get-well-soon, but didn't because it would mean typing "thanks" which didn't seem right (so I left it).

I think it would be good to be able to use as simply flowers for different purposes.

[Svrider]

Thing is I don't knowwhat or mean either! I tend to stick to