Now is the time boys and girls, to let your local Poppy Organiser known you are available for next year. It gives them lots of time to work out the rosters for each of their "stations" and saves them having to root around for help at the last minute. It also gives you the feeling that, come what may (and it doesn't look good just now), you will be in there doing something for our service people past and present. Get some friends - not necessarily with service connections - to stand with you as you carry out this very rewarding task.

Well said, Sir.

This poppy thing seems to be much bigger this year than I am used to seing. On my way too work today there seemed to be poppy sellers all over the shop in Windsor and the amount of people wearing them was phenomenal.

this time we could have sold 1000s of lapel poppys pins,, alter poppys we sold as "lady poppys" even wristbands,, white with poppys on them..
stickers of all kinds for the younger ones ,,

The Public have noticed what's happening.

This isn't an old WW1/WW2 thing any more.

Bloody big price to pay for the publicity, though

I worked today, Saturday and last Saturday in the Brittania Centre in Hinckley.
Last week the Local ACF (9/12th.QRL) worked until 13.00, they brought back 14 heavy tins and they were out in the streets.
This week it was the Sea Cadets. on shifts fom 09.00 until 15.00, same result, full tins.
I had £5/£10 and £20 notes put in tins on our table.
I feel more than last year that the Afghanistan coverage on TV has brought it home to people.
I wear my old beret with Bays badge, blazer and bays tie.
I enjoy it, meet people I haven't seen for years and many new ones.
But not allowed to stick the pins in..........not safe........funny ,they let me drive a tank at 17!
My colleague, ATS ambulance driver 1941, took charge of the pins......pity ,one of the perks was pinning poppies on young ladies!
We had many requests for the enamel pin brooch poppies but sold out days ago.
The bad news is.....a packet of 100 pin brooches was stolen at Earl Shilton from a RBL stall. That's at least £100 we don't get.

Had a nice moment this morning while gathering in Collecting Boxes ... The OH is making her way out of Toddy's Bar with the Boxes,and blokes keep stopping her to put more money in. They had already had an extra Box provided because they had given so much and filled one.

I was out selling poppies in Wigton, Cumbria with the local detachment of ACF and the donations from the local people were outstanding. We had 4 tins between the 12 of us and they were pretty full by the time we knocked it on the head at 2pm having started at 10 am. Every year the RBL ask us if we could help and the cadets volunteer unquetionably. Even folk who were wearing poppies were donating, we had some of the old dears giving sweets to the cadets and at least 1 kind cafe owner provided hot drinks when the rain reared its ugly head.