Our new best friend, Poppy Man, has been out and about at the best places over the last few days including a little light shopping with the Christmas crowds in Oxford Street and inspecting the cars at the start of the London to Brighton Vintage Car Rally. As he was a house guest for the weekend I decided he should not have a day of rest on Sunday so took him off for a spot of tin rattling on Sunday. With difficulty I tucked him under my arm - rather like a scarlet Worzel Gummidge - and carried him up to a patch of pavement outside Daylesfords - Lady Bamford's upmakarket deli - in Pimlico. I reckoned it might be rich pickings and it was certainly interesting! Studiously ignored by too many butgenerously supported by others (one man, a dishy American, put a £20 note in the tin - we poppy collectors like note carriers, much less heavy!)
Meanwhile, Nellie has taken a particular shine to the boy and even took him for a stroll in the park!
Nellie is never this well behaved when I walk her...Well done Poppy Man!
Posted by: Alex | November 07, 2007 at 05:29 PM