Bob

You can get them at British Consulates and also if you ask the British Legions across the country, especially by the San Fran one, who will send you a few.

Egg and Cress

Thanks! Also discovered they have poppy pins for more permanent use. Will probably get a couple of those as well as the silk ones!

Jerseygirl

British poppies are usually made out of thick red paper. I bought a lovely velvet one this year in Canada.

Keith

The Rmemberance Day poppy is a result of a poem writen at the front by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

Here in Canada Rememberance Day is always celebrated in Ottawa on the 11th Nov. Thousands line the streets around the Cenotaph and after the ceremony the public leave their poppies on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/flanders.htm

Dorothy

A better link to the significance of the poem would have been this http://www.legion.ca/Poppy/campaign_e.cfm

Englishmum

I found out about this too late, but you can order poppies from the Royal British Legion Poppy Shop (not sure if they will deliver overseas, perhaps to UK addresses where one could get a friend or rellie to send it on?):

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/

http://www.poppyshop.org.uk/ (apparently the 'bling' poppies were so successful this year that they couldn't cope with the demand!)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...reach-40m.html

cindyabs

Yesterday, our sales manager came in with a box full of bunches of poppies with a tag from the VFW. We handed them out at all our sales depots and hotels and vets got free rides on the trolley. Every ticket we sold, a dollar went to the Patriot Dog program, a training program for dogs to be used for vets.

scrubbedexpat097

Britishbees

For information: I ordered our Poppy brooches and car Poppy from the Royal British Legion this year and it only took a week to get here

robin1234

There was a very good hour-long programme on BBC Radio 4 last night that covered the history & significance of Remembrance Sunday from 1919 till now. It explores the tension that has existed since the 1920s between a "militaristic" observance of the day and a more critical, perhaps anti-war approach. Has some really good old recordings from the archive from the 1930s to the 1960s. Highly recommended! (It should be available at this link for a week.)

Sue

Here's a little article on the BBC site about what countries participate in poppy wearing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15637074

Lothianlad

BBC1 TV last evening - Saturday 12 November 2011 - the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the presence of HM The Queen.......

.....Sir Cliff Richard.....71 years old...singing an old song......this whole performance, plus the song, could well be compared with that old question.....Marmite.....you either love Marmite to bits, or you hate it with a passion.......you will either love Methuselah Cliff here, or you will..well, let's be gentle with the old geezer here.....not care too much either way about his performance or the song.......I must say I quite like the RAF orchestra, and calling themselves the Squadronaires...how appropriate!

Remembrance Day in much of the UK has been really glorious in terms of the weather - clear blue skies, very little in the way of a light southerly breeze straight up from the Canary Islands, and quite incredibly warm for mid November! Much more like a day in May in many parts, especially in England and Wales. At this rate the leaves will stop falling, new buds will pop, and so will the crocuses and snowdrops......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-Oi...eature=related

Bob

Impressed to see the England squad with the poppy on their warmup track suits and on some of the strips.

Also in quite a few of the footie teams who played during the week.