The price of war - some would say the futility - is starkly embodied in the installation at the Tower of london - "Blood swept lands and seas of red" by Paul Cummins. This involves over 888,000 ceramic poppies (one for each of the Commonwealth war dead), assembled and placed by volunteers, who are still at work putting it in place, as a commemmoration of the outbreak of the First World war. We went to see it, along with thousands of others, in October 2014.

We also came across this group of pearly kings and queens, and a beefeater.

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