This week’s black and white photo was taken on 11 November 2008, the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. Hubby and I were at the Thiepval memorial in the Somme that day for the remembrance service which was an intensely moving one. We had been visiting various WW1 sites across France and… Read More
This week has been a very busy one and has been very I’ve been busy putting together a booklet for the Remembrance Sunday service at church for my mother-in-law who has been researching all of the men from our church (or more accurately the churches which eventually joined together to become the church we are… Read More
Last week we took a trip to London to see the poppies in the moat at the Tower of London. The moat has been slowly filling with red poppies since the centenary of the outbreak of World War I back in August and will keep being filled until 11 November. The moat is now looking… Read More
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” (Sir Edward Grey, 3 August 1914) As we drove through sleepy Flanders villages on our holiday around France and Belgium back in June, we passed a military cemetery. I was suddenly struck by the thought that… Read More