Rememberance.

Perhaps it is because I am a "baby boomer" but poppies have always been prominent in November during my life. Trying to think of a blip I gathered a selection of the poppies from round the house, the ceramic one from the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Blood (2014), a large artificial one,  a typical "poppy day" button hole and a large "poppy day" version.

So here they are on our cold frosty lawn in a shaft of morning sun.  A couple of observations about remembrance.  Firstly I am pleased to see it is still being strongly observed.  When I was at school I don't remember the silence being observed or shops falling still at 11:00 on the 11th  The second is I was horrified to here a presenter say on TV today that there have only been two years since 1945 when there have been no military deaths in active service.

I must pop along to see what ASG has blipped this year his list of personal friends who have fallen is always sobering.