Working in a poorly paid job? Yes. Defending their country? No. Just hope they have one for the next bin man who gets run over.

Perhaps they were getting practice in before the World Snooker Championships commence at the Crucible?

On the topic of reluctant hero John Holmes, that was a far more appropriate context for an arranged minutes silence.

I wear a poppy every year,I even wore it over here where I now live.I wear it out of respect to my father's generation and those of wwI ,but the point I was trying to make is ,it seems when I see these media people and so called" celebrities" they want to be the first ones seen wearing them.I thought I had seen them wearing them slightly longer than two weeks before remembrance day

I was only stating what law guidelines we have to follow because we get asked many times when delivering why we can't deliver them sooner and "officially" we can't sell them until the day of the launch.

I think that post has to be about the best thing I ever read on these boards .

Well bloody said !