Two Minutes' Silence ...

[Arthur Little]

... will - as per the custom at this time of year - be observed at the Cenotaph in Whitehall this morning ... with the Queen being joined by leading politicians in laying poppy wreaths in memory of the fallen in ALL conflicts since the Great War.

Good that something still has the power to shut the politicos up for 2 minutes at least.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...s-silence.html

[fred]

We will be observing 2 minutes of silence on the 11th and buying Poppy`s...After that,we will drink to them!!

[Arthur Little]

We will be observing 2 minutes of silence on the 11th and buying Poppy`s...After that,we will drink to them!!

Fred ... your reply couldn't help making me think of this:

"Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower ... its bloom is shed.
Or, like the snow upon the river,
A moment white ... then gone forever!"

couplet's extracted from 'Tam O' Shanter, by Scots Bard,
Robert (Rabbie) Burns.