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Old 03-11-18, 04:43 PM
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You wear a helmet to do the laundry?
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Old 03-11-18, 04:45 PM
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Hello Allison,
I am glad to hear (as well as see!) you are well and are still finding things, yes, everything is so very expensive these days, still, never mind, it's only money.
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You wear a helmet to do the laundry?
I would wear a helmet for everything if I could. Has been suggested I should wear the bone dome in the pit lane, but seeing as I can't hear a thing wearing it, I feel it may make me more of a liability than usual.
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Hello Allison,
I am glad to hear (as well as see!) you are well and are still finding things, yes, everything is so very expensive these days, still, never mind, it's only money.
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This is true, although I do have self control. I stopped myself from buying a flight suit today.
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Bone done, flight suit - ah, the glamour of uniform.
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Bone done, flight suit - ah, the glamour of uniform.
Yep but RAF, that must be grinding your gears 😂
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I don't wear mine as I lose things.
I was persuaded into buying a knitted poppy by the RBL chappy at Tesco the other day(it looks very erm rustic and home made) I'll lose it no doubt and buy another before the 11th.
If you have any contacts in South Africa it is possible to get a poppy made of beads. I think it is Zulu beadwork.

I got one at least ten years ago, when I was trying to get poppy from each country that wears them.

I also sourced some "standard" South African poppies, but when they turned up they were the same as English poppies. I was later told that they import them from here.
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Old 04-11-18, 08:19 AM
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I think it is actually quite nice for the SA Legion to have their poppies made here.
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I think it is actually quite nice for the SA Legion to have their poppies made here.
I don't disagree with that.

I just wish that I had known before I sourced half a dozen and had them flown in.
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If you have any contacts in South Africa it is possible to get a poppy made of beads. I think it is Zulu beadwork.

I got one at least ten years ago, when I was trying to get poppy from each country that wears them.

I also sourced some "standard" South African poppies, but when they turned up they were the same as English poppies. I was later told that they import them from here.
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I wonder if the ebay sellers, offering Somme poppies at the moment, who state in their descriptions that a percentage of monies from the sale of the poppy concerned will be given to the Royal British Legion, actually are as good as their word?
Perhaps I am being far too cynical?

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Old 05-11-18, 01:52 PM
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Not a tabloid that I ever buy, but, I could not help but notice the front page of todays Daily Star, a great shame to see people profiteer at the expense of the RBL.

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Interestingly, the BBC report today, that Trading Standards have seized 1700 counterfeit poppy products from a wholesale company in Manchester.
Their on line report contains photographs of a gold poppy that looks similar to the Somme poppy at a mere glance.
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