Poppies and Alfie

Half Term is over and we are back on Grandchildren duty. This is St. Wilfreds Church, Calverton. We take Alfie to the toddler group there.

The church has an impressive display of poppies all around the church grounds and path.

Alfie was drawn to the poppies and this is him looking at the display cascading from the side of the church.

Alfie is too young to appreciate the significance of the poppies. His Great Great Grandfather (that's my Grandfather) was a soldier in the British Army, serving in the Somme in WW1. He was one of the lucky ones as he managed to return home, albeit with mustard gas poisoning.

[Zilli~]

Great display and, as always, Alfie is so cute

[Mags]

Oh my! How precious this is!

[Renee Salamon]

Love it, enjoy your duties. We’ve come back exhausted from ours but very happy

[Phil Howcroft]

@rensala Renee, 3 days a week , school term time (our daughter is a teacher) , we love it !!!

@marlboromaam thanks mags , much appreciated

@zilli awww thanks Zilli , really kind of you

[Wendy]

Two of my favorites. 💛

[julia]

Cute shot.. It is good that these sort of displays are still being displayed so that the conversation can start to tell our young people as to what our forebears went through.. May be in a year or 3 for Alfie..

[bkb in the city]

Cute pic

[Beryl Lloyd]

A lovely display of the poppies but obviously Alfie believes they need a close inspection !!

[Carole Sandford]

He’s taking a great interest there. My Grandad had mustard gas poisoning too Phil.

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[Phil Howcroft]

@carole_sandford Carole , he was on sentry duty , no idea what he was guarding , but his mate died and my grandad survived , he told me and my brother that German soldiers took him back to the trenches , but my brother thinks it was German soldiers who were POW acting as stretcher bearers . He never told my Dad and my uncle about the German soldiers !