The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168402   Message #4185179
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
04-Nov-23 - 05:12 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat Australia-New Zealand Songbook
Subject: RE: Mudcat Australia-New Zealand Songbook
Rich-joy said - the Poppy Sellers can still be found - on the city streets and in country towns, at least - in the days leading up to November 11th. It is unlikely to ever again reach the outpouring of the centenary in 2018, where I among many, many tens of thousands of people - the world over - hand-crafted poppies and delivered them via the local libraries etc, to be inserted into massed displays around the countries and particularly at the memorials to the fallen, extant in every city and town. Fellow Catter and Crafter, Sandra in Sydney, may have done the same!?

World War I armistice centenary to be marked with 62,000 handmade poppies at Australian War Memorial ... Almost one million poppies were sent in, but only 62,000 were staked outside the war memorial ...

no, I didn't make poppies, but several friends did & one even saw one of her her poppies amongst the 62,000 at the Australian War memorial. It had a distinctive centre & was near the path!

another friend made several dozen for a display on a local church gate & makes more every year.