Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Poppies

Armistice Day, 100 years after the start of World War One, and the final ceramic poppy of 888,246 (one for each British military fatality in that conflict) was placed at the Tower of London to complete what even on TV looks a stunning and moving display; I am pleased to say one of the poppies is ours, and it can be for my great-uncle Thomas Edgar of the Lancashire Fusiliers (one of the 888,246 fallen heroes) whose medals are currently in my safe-keeping.
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