Poppies are out

[AB Editor]

Do you always take a handful to make sure you can put one on all your jackets, and not be "caught short" during the week? Apparently this is common practice according to the poppy lady I saw on the weekend.

Seems a thoroughly sensible idea.

The AnswerGnome is already paying his poppy-based respects - are you going to change your avatar to contain a poppy?

[Old_Geezer]

Agreed, 7 days for public figures/sites/etc. is not unreasonable.

[LoftyLottie]

Not that I won't JTH, I just don't. If I was going to a memorial service I most definitely would. I am not a rebel. I do however, think it is very silly for organisations like the BBC to insist on it. That just devalues it in my opinion.

[sandyRoe]

You don't see as many White Poppies as you used to.

[jackthehat]

Sorry, Lottie.
I wasn't meaning that anyone NOT wearing a poppy was 'anti', I understand that poppy-wearing is a personal matter.......it's just that the ill-tempered exchanges between the 'ought/must' wear a poppy and the 'shan't/won't' are pointless and show neither position in a particularly good light. :o)

[Brenden]

I am wearing my poppy with pride also, my father was in the eighth army and had he outlived my mother would have lived with the chelsea pensioners - his wish.

[LoftyLottie]

Agreed Jack.

[vivandorron]

I wish I was able to find out where all the money goes from the sale of poppies. Possibly there are a number of high paid officials in the organisation.!!!

Ron.

[fliptheswitch]

I haven't seen one person selling poppies where I live. How odd.

Hmm, I may have to go to the supermarket, they're guaranteed to have them. I usually wear the same jacket/coat, so no need to get more than one. I will get a couple for the kids though.

[askyourgran]

I buy one Poppy, if I lose it it doesn't matter. I would buy a purple one too but I haven't yet seen one on sale. Not often I'm caught short.

[mccfluff]

i already have

[rowanwitch]

purple poppies online from animal aid
http://www.animalaidshop.org.uk/accessories

[piggling]

Bought one yesterday & managed to lose it within 5 minutes as usual!

[notasyoungasiwas]

Brenden I too will wear my poppy with pride and respect and Ed if I could, I would change my avatar to a poppy like several have already done, but I'm cr** at anything technical and I wouldn't know where to start!

[askyourgran]

What!....... been caught short mcFluff?

[jno]

jack, I've no problem at all with people wearing poppies; I don't, for the reasons I've explained (and I think in a debate, reasons should be given). I don't go round ripping them off people in the street... not usually.

[vivandorron]

Purple poppies for ponies is it.!? I may appear to be cynical but my granddad was in the 1st world war and was responsible for his team of four horses which he drove with a limber carrying ammunition to the front lines. Many horses were lost along with soldiers during the battles.

My grouse is that a lot of charitable organisations exist when they could be amalgamated. Furthermore, whilst I always thought that a patron was someone who donated to an organisation, it appears that I was wrong. I now understand that lots of Charities pay a fee to have titled 'patrons' listed on their letter headings.

Ron.

Ron.

Ron.

[rowanwitch]

Not just horses...dogs including the springer spaniel killed by the taliban looking for bombs... cats who died when ships were sunk by u boats... pigeons , oxen, camels, many creatures have shared warzones with humans,,, they didn't ask to be there ...neither did many of the young men... The organisation now works in areas of animal cruelty and distress

[vulcan]

I wear mine in respect of all the people who have died in conflict in general and the members of my family who died defending this country, in particular. I believe this is the very least I can do. If others don't like it that is their prerogative.