Croft Silver Band accompanying the local Act of Remembrance. For many years the dogs and I have strolled down the village to join in the local Act of Remembrance, this year meeting up with our neighbours who were at the local ceremony for the first time. It’s a lovely service, with residents from three local villages meeting together to remember the fallen, with onlookers filling the main street through the village, and extending up onto the grassy embankment in front of the pub, which overlooks the war memorial. Unusually there is no church service – there is a full outdoor service, and also perhaps unusually, the sun always seems to shine. Global warming is clearly in evidence, since I remember Remembrance Parades as a Scout when a biting wind blew unmercifully and on at least one occasion there were snow flurries. The challenge was to see how many sweatshirts you could fit under your uniform shirt.
