Remembrance Sunday

Interesting, I didn't realise that Scotland had different ones, I assume they were all made at the Earl Haig poppy factory in Richmond too.

What about those big fabric ones that some women seem to wear where do they come from?

Just today I was having a look at one, and ours now have a plastic stalk rather than a pin. Health and safety one assumes.

They do give a regular separate pin to attach it, so I'm puzzled.

Anyway yes, always been different style in Scotland.

Because of Health & Safety there are sticky Poppies this year.

I've always supported the Poppy Appeal but have always bemoaned the fact they are so cheaply made. I appreciate that it is a charity so they need to find the cheapest way of making them, but I tend not to buy mine until around November 1st because otherwise by the time the 11th comes round they're a crinkly mess or have fallen off. If they were made of a plastic or metal this would not be a problem.

I tend to use a safety pin as well, rather than the needle pin it comes with, because I have great difficulty pinning it on with the pin they provide, also a safety pin is more secure so stops it falling off unnoticed.

They do a lapel pin badge each year which costs £1 and they do bigger Poppies in the Poppy Shop.

They've always done it that way here, a plastic stem and pin... except when I was at primary school when we didn't get given the pin! That was in the days before the green leaf which makes me feel old, they also grew a little side branch on the stem at some point too.

I'm never sure how to attach it to myself, this year I've lost two - one after less than 24 hours. Perhaps it's a cunning ploy to get everyone to buy double!?

The side branch is for the pin.

1 - slide the pin through your lapel from back to front, then front to back, so you have a little piece of pin poking through in a line across your lapel.

2 - poke the stalk between the pin and your lapel, and push it through until the stalk is below the pin, and the head is above the pin.

3 - the stalk will prevent the poppy coming off when you have your coat upside down and/or when you take it off.

Who did you email this time, a Chelsea Pensioner?

Tis just the way I've always done it

That's kind of what I did first time but it still disappeared, although I wasn't wearing a coat with a lapel so maybe that's why

C4 News coming from Coventry tonight - and rather interestingly in the preview Jon Snow was wearing a poppy, something he normally does not do on TV.

Those Sticky Poppies confused me, I was shocked they did them, and they worked quite well, until the sticky patch becomes sticky after a few hours and falls off, or when you put on or take off a coat, so it is tugged off.

Anyways, BBC & Sky both observed the silence as usual, although BBC only seemed to do so on BBC News, although I don't think it happened on ITV.