Our village remembers...

Wreaths were laid on our village war memorial this morning to honour the 25 men who died in the First World War and the three who died in World War Two.

There are very few villages and towns in the UK without war memorials. According to the BBC there are only 52 'thankful villages' (a term coined by the writer Arthur Mee - I still have a set of his encyclopaedias..). These were places which had no one was killed in the Great War. Apparently Upper Slaughter in the Cotswolds has the distinction of being one of only 14 places in the UK where all soldiers came back alive from both wars.

For the record: 15C, sunny spells and a lovely mild day for Remembrance Sunday and all those on parade.