Day 3442 (Wednesday) 11th November 2026. Today is a bank holiday for Armistice Day but Super U was open and Huw went over there to get some bits and took this photo of a local parade. Shame about the weather, it was horrible again today and apparently we’re in for a big storm tomorrow Armistice Day in France Armistice Day is a Bank Holiday (Jour Férié) in France – the French commemorate the day when the war ended on the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month. We will remember. Interestingly enough it is not a Bank Holiday in the UK, however, throughout the land children would have been making poppies, selling poppies and wearing them. As fully fledged adults we remember doing this as school children ourselves and so it continues, today. It is ingrained in our culture some 100 years later. Here in France, the flower that is associated with the ending of World War I, is the cornflower ‘Le bleuet’, however, this is not as widely worn as you have come to see in the UK. T...
