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?

[vivandorron]

rowanwitch... You are correct in every thing you have said. Nevertheless I still feel that there are too many charities for ordinary folk to contribute to every organisation which has a flag day.

There are in the region of 200,000 charities registered in England and Wales. If my maths are correct....10p to each would amount to £20,000.

Consequently, I am very very selective.

Ron.

[rowanwitch]

Me too... cats protection, PDSA, RSPB, local cat sanctuary, and from that point if something has relevance to me and I have some spare cash then I donate at the time... at times of major disasters I usually donate to medicin sans frontieres

[Ann]

I think I posted before that this year the actual Remembrance tradition (The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month) is also in year 11 so its
11.11.11 at 11am

[woofgang]

I have a sparkly poppy which I wear. I bought it from the British legion website. I do buy paper poppies but as I live in sweatshirts, I find it difficult to actually wear them hence, in part, the sparkly one as it has a good brooch pin with a safety catch. and yes, different choices don't make people better or worse....just different views.