Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Paul B .A good subject for your photograpy skills .Fields of poppies just outside of River along the Alkham Valley Road on the left hand side leaving Bushy Ruff .
After you could always try the Marquis for a spot of lunch .
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I took these near Eagle Heights Kent last weekend. I love poppy fields.
I couldn't resist sitting in them, all I needed was a Cadbury's flake like that old advert!
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Great photo's but always tinged with sadness as since a child popppies always reflected the lost souls of WW1.We were never allowed to pick them for fear of upsetting a restless soul.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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What a lovely thought, Marek.
We passed by a beautiful field of poppies this afternoon, on our way to visit the grave of Derek Nimmo.
We took photos of the poppies, in memory of all those lost souls.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That's a lovely photo Maggie, I too think of them as lost souls, they are my favourite flower.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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oh wow! stunning pictures there girls..really brill and what colours. Thanks for the tip Sue must try and get up there and have a look at the Alkham Valley. Colette was saying something similar a day or so ago.
Will try The Marquis Sue when I get me pennies together as it sounds really good up there. I can do posh!!
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was a slightly strange feeling seeing them, Jeane - they were beautiful, but at the same time I couldn't help but think of battlefields ...
It was quite a coincidence, because I'd just seen your pictures before we went out, and thought how nice the poppies must have been, to see ... and then completely unexpectedly, we went past a field ourselves. It was the only one I saw in the whole trip, and it was stunning - a couple of other cars had stopped to see it too.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What a coincidence Maggie, yes as I said even though they are my favourite flower when ever I see a field of them I always think of our war heros.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The closing shot of Blackadder goes Forth was one of the most moving scenes in modern day British Television. It brought a tear to me eye as Blackadder Baldrick Darling etc 'went over the top' and the action slowed down and the scene of the WW1 battlefield melted to reveal a poppy field of today....BBC at its very best.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes, that ending was most hard-hitting. It was a sudden shock into a sense of reality - that people really did die, and no matter the machinations, suddenly it was unavoidable. It was especially meaningful in that although the people were obviously characters, we'd had chance to know them and build up a relationship with them. With
that ending shot, suddenly that war became not a mass of unknown people who fell over in a distant land decades ago, the meaning of which is gradually being reinvented and even, to some people today, lost, but instead a much-needed reminder that these were real people, whose deaths were terrifying and horrible, and whose losses were mourned for many many years (some even still now) by the families and friends who loved them. That last scene was an underlining of a cost of war that we don't often recognise en masse like this, as the impact of individual losses across the countries were just that - individual impacts, and usually on people who had little voice to express just what those losses personally meant to them.
Dad's Army also ended with an acknowldgement of reality, with a toast to the people who served in the Home Guard.
Both good actions, and it me also, it's significant that although these were comedy programmes, behind them was something so real and so tragic that it could not go unrecognised.
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Maggie
Very well put. I often think of those young men that lost their lives before they even had the chance to live it.How many of them would have gone on to marry have children etc become famous artists writers sportsman ....a whole generation and potential future generations lost forever.
I remember when I was a lad my great Uncle who was a gas casualty of WW1 (not sure of the term) In his youth he was a strapping 6footer ,tall for those days, but I only remember him as an old man scared of everything and everyone,unable to speak without blowing huge bubbles of spittle out from his mouth. He was cared for by his married sisters but they were grateful for his return as the other brothers never came home.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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seeing the fields of poppies in france and belguim last year really brought a tear to my eyes,these poppies fields where actull battles were fought.
The Dover War Memorial Project
