Will anyone be going to a parade on Sunday?

[bobjugs12]

For the first time in 10 years I will not be at a parade this Sunday, and I feel gutted. Unfortunately I have to do a course in restraint and detention for violent patients. I have checked with the course organiser and they would be happy to let me go to a march, but there isn't one nearby as far as I know. (If anyone can correct me, i'm in Canning Town in London)

However, I will still be observing the silence, and remembering those who never made it home, starngers and friends alike.

[rowanwitch]

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also a parade in Waltham forest Bobjugs...but Poplar is very close to Canning town

[mccfluff]

I usually pop down to the square but i am ashamed to admit that does tend to depend on whther i was out the night before, always buy a poppy and onbserve the silvence though

how are you anyway?

[bobjugs12]

Thank you Rowan, I will do my very best to get down there in time,suited and booted with medals on display. No drinks in the legion afterwards though, i'm on duty Sunday night lol

I'm good thanks Fluffy, things are going really well. How about you? Long time no speak

[annie0000]

Boys are going with the cubs so will probably accompany them. Are you really doing the course on a Sunday? That seems a bit weird. My brother runs those courses in the NHS up here. he's very good :o)

[TheOtherHalf]

We`ve just had our 2 min silence at work. (amazing how we did it, usually theres so much chatter and noise )

[bobjugs12]

It's being run by a private company annie, not the NHS.

I usually take my eldest daughter along to the parades, it's always nice to hold her hand whilst i'm blubbing my eyes out. She now understands the significance and respect that the poopy shows, and is always the strongest supporter of it at school (she's 8 btw). I took her out selling a couple of years ago, and she managed to make RBL a fortune by explaining to people why they should wear a Poppy. In one country pub we went into not one person put less than a fiver in the pot, and the landlord donated £50!

[mccfluff]

good my dear will have to have a catch up one night :-)

[rowanwitch]

just sat quietly in office on my own...but know other areas observe it including some wards and outpatient departments except for emergencies of course.

Will probably watch the cenotaph service onTv...remember when I was a kid it was so quiet and so widely respected in london we could hear the gun go off for the two minute silence and again at the end....but that was in the early 60s and for many people still relatively recent history a lot of WW1 survivors still around too

[annie0000]

Thought it must be a private course.

My eldest is about to move up to Scouts, as such, his cub jumper - although i did buy it huge - is now tiny and it is difficult to make him look smart in it, but I am not buying him a new one and re-sewing all the badges on for the sake of a few weeks - He'll just have to hide at the back!

[mccfluff]

sorry i am not letting you get away with poopy show....

[SlackAlice]

At work I'm afraid, but will park my bus and observe the 2 mins silence.

[paddywak]

We always try to get down to the village memorial or the ceremony, I have to confess when ever I hear The Last Post it always brings a tear to my eye

[bobjugs12]

Whoops, possibly the worst typo i've had since I emailed my boss trying to say "thanks for the short notice deployment" and accidentally wrote "sir, i hope you die of the ebola virus you lonely malicious old Snag"

[T&S]

I'm not just going to a parade, I'm on one!

[bobjugs12]

Good for you T&S, whereabouts?
(PS Did I read your Poppy correctly? You're an ex fed?)

[Dris]

I live just 100yds from the RBLS so the parade leaves from there.I follow it down to the centre of the town where the memorial is.

[TTG]

Yes, rain or shine, we attend the one in our town centre.

[T&S]

Thats right bobjugs