Poppies everywhere these past few weeks, and especially at the Tower of London…. these were in a church in deepest Surrey….

All of us remembering the start of the First World War 100 years ago this year, plus all the other wars since then, and more recently Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Ukraine….

Of special local interest here in Cumbria is that the paper for all those red British Legion poppies comes from a paper factory just up the road in Burneside, Kendal – see the article here….