I have just read an article that says I should not be allowed to wear a poppy because I voted to leave the EU.
This journalist writing on the independent website says that by voting to leave we have dishonoured the sacrifices made by those who fought in the world wars. So we voted against being controlled by people’s other than ourselves, which I believe...
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Hmm 4 years ago today I got engaged on my last time (or so i thought) wearing number ones to the woman I had dated for three and a bit years for her to only break up with me three weeks later saying the spark had gone. I tried to rekindle the spark but she wasn’t receptive out with her “friends” so after she finally...
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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month nations across the world stop and pause for two minutes of silence to remember those who have given all in the hope of peace and freedom.
Also those in uk and indeed many of the commonwealth wear a little poppy on their breast in honour of them. There are some who won’t do
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Having been a soldier most my life I have walked along side many amazing people.
I have sat and talked to a Lancaster bomber tail gunner, I have stood and talked to a VC holder but the hardest thing I have done is talk to those who were never the same again
I have several friends who at this time of year lock themselves away
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Today I stood in uniform on a high street in a small town with a blue box with poppies in it and despite the cold and the rain I stood their.
Though as the weather was shit it wasn’t as productive as normal I still had many people of all backgrounds stop and put money in my little collection box many even stopped to talk,...
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As some may have seen I have done this as a Halloween costume before but the phantom of the opera has always been one of my favourite musical and stage shows.
I have decided to reprise the costume and maybe do it as a photo shoot what are your thoughts and suggestions? Obviously I doubt you’ll want me stripping of 😂
On November 7th 1920, in strictest secrecy four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. There the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a...
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IN FLANDERS FIELDS
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.
Take up our quarrel with...
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