wheres all the poppies?

[wnjxc21]

I have seen people on TV wearing them and by now I would have been sporting a poppy with pride but...

I haven't seen a single person selling them, I would gladly do it myself! is it just a case of getting them from the legion?

I think the should be compulsory in Britain!

I'd like to see everyone showing respect to those who fought for this great country we ALL live in!!

[admarlow]

didn't you know, they arn't fashionable anymore.

[B00]

Know what you mean- I struggled to find anywhere which sold them too, finally got 3 (one for each of the coats I regularly wear) from my local greengrocers.....

Want me to get you one? LOL

[smudge]

There's an old boy sitting in the lobby of our local Sainsbury's selling Poppies.

We wear one every year & will continue to do so.

If they ever stopped producing them, I'd make my own!!!!

[NH]

I don't really understand why we commerate WW1; it's not that I'm not grateful, it's just that it was a stupid, pointless war fought to protect a crumbling empire, and it cost thousands of lives for nothing.

(My two pence on this, anyway).

[admarlow]

NH - the poppys are not to remember the war but to honour the millions people who died in it

[smudge]

NH - I find your comments rather insulting.

"Why do we commemorate WW1?" you ask!

I never had the chance to meet my dear Grandad Johnson, because he was killed in action in WW1 & is buried in Ypres - along with his comrades.

He left behind a wife & young children.

[smudge]

People like you make me soooo angry - I'd better go & take a few deep brreaths!!!!

[smudge]

*breaths even!

[matty1]

The only places ive seen poppies on sale so far this year have been in pubs and clubs

[bazwillrun]

i normally get mine at my local sainsburys but i havent seen anyone there this year.
perhaps the PC mob have scared them off, in case it upsets all the immigrants

This and the other sevices benevolent funds are the only charities i will give to. i refuse to give to overseas charities.

Charity starts at home, and a lot more people should remember it.

[auldyin]

I bought mine at my local Sainsbury Garage.

[shaneystar2]

NH ..poppies do not just commemerate WW1 but all subsequent wars too WW11 and other conflicts in which are our armed forces have been involved up to the present day and those killed more recently in Iraq.
So ...wear your poppy with pride ..on sale in most supermarkets,public libraries and plenty of British Legion folk ratting their collection boxes in my area.

[smudge]

Good old Sainsbury's!

My other dear Grandad fought in WW2 & although injured, he thankfully made it home to his wife & children.

I always think of all the servicemen & women who fought for our Country in WW1& WW2 - also all the ones who have since then & still are.

God bless them all.

[lindapinda]

Here here Smudge! Just reading earlier threads from today,you've been having a bit of a hassled day on here! Chin up!!

[IggyB]

well its still over a week away before the offical day - so my guess is people will be selling them more in a few days time... is it just me or do people seem to be putting them on (on the tv) earlier and earlier every year

[Lonnie]

Plenty where I live, but one collector was robbed of his tin, just as well I wasn't around at the time. I'm a collector also.

[smudge]

Thank you Linda - that's very kind of you. -x-

[smudge]

Lonnie - Well done on being a collector.

My husband was telling me earlier that a collector was mugged today - what is the world coming too?

Did it happen in Essex?

[johnizere]

NH....if the young men and women who fought in the war (ww1, ww2) and other wars could see some of your responses, they would wonder why they bothered.