Don't be fooled...

Poppies are more commonly associated with WWI and with the current 100th commemorations of the Battle of the Somme on the way I have featured a few in my journal already and will again.

These poppies were in a field at Lullingstone Country Park near Eynsford, Kent. During WWII the park was used as a decoy airfield in an attempt to protect Biggin Hill. The plan worked considering it underwent sustained German bombing on the 13th and 14th March 1944. Some of the bomb craters can still be seen. 

The park had been since medieval times a deer park and during the war no one could look after them. As a result they were allowed to escape and could be one of the reasons this part of Kent has so many wild deer.

Considering the park's connections to Biggin Hill it was fitting a Spitfire flew overhead as we arrived.