Showing posts with label poppy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poppy. 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

Poppies at the Gate

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 Today is Remembrance Day . To commemorate, I am sharing a picture of the poppies on the fence at the entrance of the biggest local park. Ev...
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Monday, 14 November 2022

La tasse des coquelicots

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Ma femme a reçu en cadeau de fête de ses parents l'année dernière cette tasse artisanale en céramique, avec des coquelicots dessus. Et a...
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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Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Poppies without needles

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 I went to buy poppies a few days afo, as soon it will be Remembrance Day . You may know that I have an issue with poppies, or more precisel...
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Thursday, 11 November 2021

"Lest we forget"

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Today is Remembrance Day . So I am sharing a picture of the gates of our local park, covered with poppies. " Lest we forget ." I w...
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Monday, 8 November 2021

Gate of poppies

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 We had a walk recently and we visited the biggest (and nicest) park of our town. This time of year, its gate is always covered with poppies...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Purple Poppies

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I mentioned yesterday that we took a walk in the local park, where the fences have been covered by poppies. Red poppies and blue poppies. B...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2020

A wall of poppies

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T here are poppies everywhere these days, which put some crimson colours in November and it is quite pretty. We went to a walk this weekend...
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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...
Saturday, 11 November 2017

The Day of the Pin

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It was Remembrance Day today, which means making sure one has a poppy on display. I have issues with poppies, or rather with the needle: I ...
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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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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Un mardi comme un autre

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C'était le Jour du Souvenir aujourd'hui. On le commémore beaucoup ici, enfin surtout le dimanche. À la onzième heure, j'étais a...
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Sunday, 9 November 2014

The poppy and the needle

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This is a trivial post about a non trivial subject. For something more thoughtful, you might want to read this post from 2008 . Today is/was...
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Saturday, 10 November 2012

Le temps mort de novembre

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On sera le Jour du Souvenir demain. Dans moins d'une heure en fait. Ca m'est venu à l'esprit: je porte un coquelicot pour les ci...
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Saturday, 12 November 2011

I almost forgot Remembrance Day

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It was Remembrance Day yesterday, I thought about it during the day at some moment, but it was in the back of my mind and I didn't blog...
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Sunday, 9 November 2008

Paper Poppy

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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...
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