Poppies

[Kev Lewis]

Originally Posted by honeybee

Great pic mrs fish, you couldn't fit anymore hover flies on it.

As for rememberance day, John Snow said he wouldn't wear a poppy on tv and that people shouldn't. I respect other views but to me it's simply about remembering those who suffered terribly in war, many didn't know how awful it would be when they signed up, and isn't to me a political matter at all.

I do see quite a lot of poppies still, I have a photo very similar to kev's that my dad took.

Mine was taken up on Painwicks Beacon Honeybee, looking South East. So it is very possible that it was the same field

[honeybee]

My dad made me get up very early to go and take some pics, was a beautiful summer morning. It was over the Duntisbourne valley and looks very similar to yours. I can't believe it but it was nearly twenty years ago (that makes me feel old!)

[Owl-Light]

Originally Posted by honeybee

As for rememberance day, John Snow said he wouldn't wear a poppy on tv and that people shouldn't. I respect other views but to me it's simply about remembering those who suffered terribly in war, many didn't know how awful it would be when they signed up, and isn't to me a political matter at all.

In full agrement with you there honeybee.

I'm reading a book at the moment called "Forgotten Voices of the Great War". Its just a collection of short first hand accounts from people of all ages, positions and sides at the time of the first World War. It's not political, just human.

I wear a poppy in memory of all those who live through or are lost in such dreadful times, then and now.