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originallambrettaman said:
One woman secretly started crocheting a life size (6 ft) soldier in May, with the aim of completing it in time for Remembrance Day and she just managed it.

It's very impressive...

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Keep your eyes out for this in Anlaby.
Courtesy of Mrs Tash

EDIT - When I say courtesy of, I mean she made it. We’ve just put it up on the postbox under the cover of darkness like proper yarn bombers! :bandit:
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dennisboothstash said:
Keep your eyes out for this in Anlaby.
Courtesy of Mrs Tash

EDIT - When I say courtesy of, I mean she made it. We’ve just put it up on the postbox under the cover of darkness like proper yarn bombers! :bandit:
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With that in mind and you strike me as a person likely to know, why is the do at the cenotaph in hull at 11.00 on Sunday? With 11 11 11 falling on Saturday surely that would be the time to do it.
See also the goings on in London about their do on Saturday.
 
balkan tiger said:
With that in mind and you strike me as a person likely to know, why is the do at the cenotaph in hull at 11.00 on Sunday? With 11 11 11 falling on Saturday surely that would be the time to do it.
See also the goings on in London about their do on Saturday.
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Remembrance Sunday is the service that is always second Sunday in November and is to commemorate all lost in conflicts in First World War and since.
Armistice Day is 11am 11/11 which started a year after the Armistice was signed which started the end of the 1st world war.
So we effectively remember twice. I assume, but could be wrong, that it was simply easier to only arrange a 2 min silence during work hours and to have a full service of Remembrance on a Sunday when no one (hardly anyone in 1919 at least) would be working.
So Sunday Trading laws really
 
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dennisboothstash said:
Remembrance Sunday is the service that is always second Sunday in November and is to commemorate all lost in conflicts in First World War and since.
Armistice Day is 11am 11/11 which started a year after the Armistice was signed which started the end of the 1st world war.
So we effectively remember twice. I assume, but could be wrong, that it was simply easier to only arrange a 2 min silence during work hours and to have a full service of Remembrance on a Sunday when no one (hardly anyone in 1919 at least) would be working.
So Sunday Trading laws really
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Remembrance Sunday (the 2nd Sunday in November) came into being right at the end of the Second World War as a way of remembering the fallen of both wars. Lots of dates were apparently considered before the 2nd Sunday in November was settled upon. I completely agree that a Sunday was probably chosen as people wouldn't be working.

I was fortunate enough to be part of the National Ceremony at the Cenotaph on Whitehall one year. Watching all the old boys march past us after the wreath laying was quite a thing.

BTW Amazing work by Mrs Tash!
 
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dennisboothstash said:
Keep your eyes out for this in Anlaby.
Courtesy of Mrs Tash

EDIT - When I say courtesy of, I mean she made it. We’ve just put it up on the postbox under the cover of darkness like proper yarn bombers! :bandit:
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These are brilliant I saw one today with a dove on the top with poppies all-around it in Eastrington near Howden..... well done all the ladies involved, or men of course...
 
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TIGERSCAVE said:
These are brilliant I saw one today with a dove on the top with poppies all-around it in Eastrington near Howden..... well done all the ladies involved, or men of course...
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What is good, that I only just learned, was that the lady that wrote the crochet pattern for the head and helmet posted it online for anyone to use for free, and is really active in supporting people when they have questions.
Fair play because that is really unusual.
Working out patterns must take ages and most people sell them.
Thats probably why there is more out and about this year. Can’t be a bad thing.

Oh by the way if any little, or large, ****er damages ours then I will be going full ‘Liam Neeson looking for his Daughter’ mode !!!
 
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dennisboothstash said:
Remembrance Sunday is the service that is always second Sunday in November and is to commemorate all lost in conflicts in First World War and since.
Armistice Day is 11am 11/11 which started a year after the Armistice was signed which started the end of the 1st world war.
So we effectively remember twice. I assume, but could be wrong, that it was simply easier to only arrange a 2 min silence during work hours and to have a full service of Remembrance on a Sunday when no one (hardly anyone in 1919 at least) would be working.
So Sunday Trading laws really
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Good explanation. Thanks
 
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