OV9

They changed to a paper nothingness this year.. zero plastic, so obviously environmentally friendly, but it reply feels like.. nothing.. a complete lack of connection

I have a knitted one now - I still stick money in the jar but don’t take one from the seller.

nah, i like that. i stuck a safety pin to the back of it and it was nice and flat on my jacket (probably should have come with the pin tbf, but id rather the money went towards the actual cause.)

i went along to a ceremony in Datchet today, my boy is in the sea scouts (well, he’s 7, so sea beavers - referred to as “wet beavers” in our family), and they were part of the procession. it was really good - quite a thing when they read out all the names from the village who didn’t come back.

I wear on Irish Legion branch poppy pin each year (the one with the shamrock) but buy a paper one and put £5 to the charity

I just use a new pin badge each year.

I was at work but they had the March through the town and at Duxford where my youngest was they dipped the nose of the Concord.

Dave!

I also buy the pin badge as I usually lose the paper ones.

I've seen these a few times and couldn't quite work out how they were supposed to attach or last beyond the first day. I just pick up a new pin badge each year and pop some money in the tin.

I’ve not worn a poppy in decades but paper is better than plastic no?

At least this year’s won’t still be in landfill next year.

ZedLeg wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 6:10 pm I’ve not worn a poppy in decades but paper is better than plastic no?

At least this year’s won’t still be in landfill next year.

Goes some way to countering the impact of the fecking billions of bit plastic poppies that get zip-tied to the lamp posts round where we live. Boils my piss that one.