"They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."

I hope that sometime I can write something even a fraction as memorable and evocative.

I put my donation in the tin (plastic?) every year, and take a new poppy if I don't already have one from a previous year.
I'm an inveterate hat wearer, either to keep the sun off, or (more usually)the rain. 50 weeks of the year my hat sports a Welsh daffodil (supporting Wales & Marie Curie cancer care) the other two weeks it sports a poppy.