Month: November 2021

Some of our team have been busy growing their Movember moustaches! Who do you think should be given the ultimate prize: being allowed to keep their moustache?

Movember are a men’s charity changing the face of men’s health by encouraging people to grow a moustache for the month of November. The money raised each year funds ground-breaking projects and raises awareness for the men’s health crisis.

Today is Remembrance Day, which marks the end of the First World War when the Armistice was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918.

When hundreds of bright red poppies emerged from the battlefields in the wake of the war, they appeared to symbolise the arrival of peace and freedom. For the whole country, the iconic red poppy has become a poignant reminder of the enormous sacrifices made by so many.

The power of the poppy was first recognised by Canadian World War One soldier, John McCrae, who was stunned by the red-cast landscape and went on to describe the salience of the poppies in his poem, In Flanders Fields.

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.”

Whether pinned to our chests or adorning a memorial, the symbolic poppy is now unmissable throughout our streets every November.