Showing posts with label World War 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War 1. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Poppies on the Bench

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Today is Remembrance Day . I try to commemorate it on the blog every year. This year, I wanted to share a picture of a bench covered with po...
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Sunday, 8 November 2026

Free Poppy Wreath

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It is Remembrance Sunday today, so as it is November we are wearing poppies in this household. My wife loves poppies: she has them on mugs,...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Poppies in Wallingford

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Today is Remembrance Day . I commemorate with a picture I took recently in Wallingford . They had figures like this of soldiers with a poppy...
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Monday, 11 November 2024

La guerre de 14-18

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Parce que nous sommes le 11 novembre, Jour du Souvenir, je partage blogue La guerre de 14-18 de Georges Brassens . Je l'ai déjà fait e...
Wednesday, 28 June 2023

The Red Baron

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 Oh the treasures one finds randomly among the bookshelves of some in-law. In this case, my father-in-law. So we were staying at their place...
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Friday, 11 November 2022

The 11th Hour

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I left the blog about Remembrance Day to the eleventh hour, when the Armistice was signed . I was idle and I procrastinated, however to my ...
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Thursday, 7 May 2020

Imagination in a nutshell (and Snoopy)

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We are soon going to celebrate the end of another war (at least in Europe), but today I thought I would share a comic strip from Peanuts ...
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Monday, 11 November 2019

Mademoiselle from Armentières

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Today is Remembrance Day and I wanted to commemorate it here on the blog, not knowing exactly how. I have done so in the past, pretty much ...
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Sunday, 11 November 2018

100 years of World War I

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As you most likely all know (or I sure hope so), today is the 11th of November, thus Remembrance Day and it is also the 100th year annive...
Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Les coquelicots

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Ce sera bientôt le Jour du Souvenir , ce qui veut direqu'on verra des coquelicots partout, pour marquer la fin de la Première guerre mon...
Friday, 27 April 2018

Le Baron rouge et moi

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Je me suis récemment rappelé un détail amusant: la date de ma fête tombe sur la date de la mort de Manfred von Richthofen , mieux connu so...
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Thursday, 12 April 2018

Guerilla equipment

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I took this picture at the York Castle Museum . It is one of the many displays of paraphernalia from World War I the museum has and they ...
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Sunday, 11 February 2018

Une pipe qui a fait la guerre

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Je fais souvent dans le billet sur la Grande Guerre ces temps-ci, mais je voulais partager cette photo. L'année dernière, j'ai vu ...
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Saturday, 10 February 2018

Scary mask

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I took this picture at the York Castle Museum . It is another relic from World War 1 : a gas mask. More like a hooded mask really. Like ma...
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Thursday, 25 January 2018

War Games

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I took this picture at the York Castle Museum and have decided to use it to illustrate my post. This is the weaponry of a British soldier o...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Couverture historique

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Il y a des choses qu'on découvre parfois. Comme il y a deux semaines, on présentait une exhibition d'objets de la Grande Guerre près...
Sunday, 13 November 2016

Se souvenir de la Grande Guerre

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Le 11 novembre, c'était le Jour du Souvenir . Nous sommes aujourd'hui le " dimanche du Souvenir ", comme on l'appelle ...
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

La Guerre de 14-18

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Nous sommes le Jour du Souvenir. Afin de le souligner, je mets ici sur ce blogue La guerre de 14-18 de Georges Brassens . Parce que j'e...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

Time for poppies

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It is Remembrance Sunday today, a fittingly grey and gloomy Sunday. I have not much to say about it, except that I will try this year to ke...
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Monday, 23 March 2015

Rediscovering Corto Maltese

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I discovered Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt when I was ten or so, in Pif Gadget , one of the French comic magazines my uncles on my mother...