People who appear on TV seem to be wearing poppies very early this year
or is it my imagination? There are19 days to go before the 11th day of
the 11th Month.
What is the protocol for this and who decides these matters. I usually
wear a red poppy during the week in which the 11th day falls in.
Don

Donwill wrote:
People who appear on TV seem to be wearing poppies very early this year
or is it my imagination? There are19 days to go before the 11th day of
the 11th Month.
What is the protocol for this and who decides these matters. I usually
wear a red poppy during the week in which the 11th day falls in.
Don


I don't wear one at all. I just chuck a wedge of money at the collectors.

About the only charity I do.

What is the protocol for this and who decides these matters.

Not regulated (thank goodness we don't have a Quango administering a
Poppy Act) but much debated.

I was educated by many people who served in WW2 who started in
November.

The Royal British Legion have in the past suggested from the launch of
their poppy appeal. This year that will be 28 October.

A lot of people in the public eye start sooner for fear of being
criticised for *not* wearing one: political correctness etc etc
--
Robin
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In message , The Natural Philosopher
wrote

About the only charity I do.

It's one charity that I once supported, but no more.

In the last couple of years I've been on the British Legion "Poppy
Appeal" junk mail begging list. The amount of junk they send me must be
costing an absolute fortune. At times the postman cannot get the
letters through the letter box, especially when they include (for some
unknown reason) a large wooden cross in the package.

You would have to pay £50+ into the collection box just to pay for the
mass mailing that they send me alone.

It's another charity that has really lost it's way and are probably
spending more money employing professional fund raisers than they
spending on the people who deserve support.

--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

In message , Robin
writes
What is the protocol for this and who decides these matters.

Not regulated (thank goodness we don't have a Quango administering a
Poppy Act) but much debated.

I was educated by many people who served in WW2 who started in
November.

The Royal British Legion have in the past suggested from the launch of
their poppy appeal. This year that will be 28 October.

A lot of people in the public eye start sooner for fear of being
criticised for *not* wearing one: political correctness etc etc

The BBC has agreed dates when the presenters can wear Poppies to avoid
'Poppy Creep' , last year it was 24th Oct - which was the Saturday 2
weeks before Remembrance Sunday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...presenters-giv
en-dates-to-avoid-competitive-poppy-wearing.html


--
Chris French

Alan wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
wrote

About the only charity I do.

It's one charity that I once supported, but no more.

In the last couple of years I've been on the British Legion "Poppy
Appeal" junk mail begging list. The amount of junk they send me must be
costing an absolute fortune. At times the postman cannot get the
letters through the letter box, especially when they include (for some
unknown reason) a large wooden cross in the package.

You would have to pay £50+ into the collection box just to pay for the
mass mailing that they send me alone.

It's another charity that has really lost it's way and are probably
spending more money employing professional fund raisers than they
spending on the people who deserve support.

yeah. help for heroes is possibly somewhat better.

In message , chris French
wrote

The BBC has agreed dates when the presenters can wear Poppies

Another layer important policy decision management that can be made
redundant at the BBC

--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

On 24/10/2010 14:31, Alan wrote:


It's another charity that has really lost it's way and are probably
spending more money employing professional fund raisers than they
spending on the people who deserve support.


I'm slightly ambivalent about it. Until a couple of years ago, I took
the view that the government (ok, taxpayer) should support people who
had fought for their country, and couldn't support themselves, and that
organisations such as the British Legion shouldn't need to exist.

But then my 99-year-old father-in-law reached the stage where we could
no longer look after him, and the local British Legion home would have
taken him in, on the strength of his RAF service from 1925 to 1935! In
the event, he died before he could go in - but their willingness to take
him changed my attitude considerably.
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Roger
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Donwill wrote:
People who appear on TV seem to be wearing poppies very early this
year or is it my imagination? There are19 days to go before the 11th
day of the 11th Month.
What is the protocol for this and who decides these matters. I
usually wear a red poppy during the week in which the 11th day falls
in. Don


I don't wear one at all. I just chuck a wedge of money at the
collectors.
About the only charity I do.

I only wear mine on the second Sunday of November for a few hours.

--
Adam

On 24/10/2010 13:18, Donwill wrote:
People who appear on TV seem to be wearing poppies very early this year
or is it my imagination? There are19 days to go before the 11th day of
the 11th Month.
What is the protocol for this and who decides these matters. I usually
wear a red poppy during the week in which the 11th day falls in.

Just asked my wife who was very active in the legion until it had to
close and lay up its standard and she tells me there are no fixed dates
as to when you can start to wear one, other than the time they come on
sale. There is, however, an official start to the legion starting to
sell poppies, as against shops that have been asked to put them on their
counters.

HTH

Dave

But then my 99-year-old father-in-law reached the stage where we could
no longer look after him, and the local British Legion home would have
taken him in, on the strength of his RAF service from 1925 to 1935! In
the event, he died before he could go in - but their willingness to take
him changed my attitude considerably.

Yes, the mother of a friend had been in two other old people's homes
that were bad. Her husband had been in the army so she got into the
Legion home, Halsey House, in Cromer in Norfolk. It was exemplary.
Exactly how all the homes should be. This has changed my attitude to the
Legion. Apart from disasters, prior to that I only gave to children's
charities and the sally army.

Peter Scott

On 24/10/2010 22:48, Huge wrote:
What exactly *is* a "popie"?

And isn't he going to be ****ed off at being worn?


Yes, there is a double P in Poppies, the singular being Poppy.
Sorry to offend your grammatical sense.
Don
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