Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

I went to London to see the ceramic poppies around the Tower of London on Monday 10 November. What a fantastic display to mark Remembrance 100 years after the First World War began (technically, 96 years after WWI ended).

Stretching around all sides of the Tower walls, each one of the 888,246 ceramic poppies represent a British or Colonial military death in World War One.

It is a moving display, conceived by artist Paul Cummins and set by stage designer Tom Piper, and four million people are expected to have viewed it by the time it is taken down later in November. Deadlines have been extended more than once because of the display's popularity.

Marvellous.