often seen in the street without a hat

I hate it when someone archly asks me whether I'm 'being good' when I don't eat something I didn't want to eat in the first place. Ugh.

I am a bit dismayed by Ekklesia's trying to co-opt the already existing white poppy movement - how hard is it to google 'white poppy' before shooting your mouth off? I also think that the Royal British Legion's views on white poppies are, to say the least, the product of another era.

Then again, I generally wear no poppy at all, because I worry that wearing a white poppy will lead to confrontations with strangers.