The eleventh hour...

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, after four years of devastating conflict that had claimed millions of lives, the guns finally fell silent across the Western Front. The armistice had been signed, and the Great War was over. The red poppies that grew among the graves on the Western Front have become an enduring symbol of sacrifice.

We will remember them...

We also remember those whose lives are still devastated by war, especially those in Ukraine (whose agony has now lasted longer than WWI) and in Gaza. 

The poppies are, once again, those in Bolton Priory Church, whose floral displays are always beautiful and very classy.