Loulou W

Absolutely.... Widow, mother of HLHS child, NHS worker, dog lover...and fighting breast cancer...

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

The entire world at your fingertips, but threatening to throw the laptop out the window the minute you see the whirling ball @SoVeryBritish

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

New levels of deprivation today in my local Waitrose 🙄#1stworldproblems

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

@rickygervais Absolutely gorgeous! Looks like Pickles feels at home straight away!

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

@ccAndrewBaker As a little girl I was totally in love with him and adored his voice on Mary, Mungo and Midge!

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

This is wonderful

[Balls to Cancer @Ballstocancer]

Nothing else to say ........

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

This full-size Lancaster Bomber sculpture will be mounted on a steel frame to give the impression it is in flight.

It will have a wingspan of 31 metres, making it taller than the Angel of the North. What a sight and tribute it's going to be, read more 👇

https://t.co/I6JSMsFaM7

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

I unlocked £25 Rush tickets for Noises Off on @TodayTixUK! https://t.co/7QBHrYGV4D

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.

None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.

The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.

Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.

A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.

On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:

"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".

On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.

There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.

Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.

A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.

He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...

THIS is the reason we wear poppies.

We do not glorify war.

We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

@DogLovers03 Salvador

[Fidelma Flynn 🕷️🍷💉 @fidelma2000]

First all female heart surgery at the royal today! #girlpower #future #stillsmiling!

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Clive Myrie’s tribute to George Alagiah is pure class.

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

Thoroughly enjoyed #wizardofoz today with @JasonManford and @AshleyBanjo. Fab production, and particularly liked the nod to the 39 film in the emerald city adverts!

[Tony Bennett @itstonybennett]

Tony left us today but he was still singing the other day at his piano and his last song was, “Because of You,” his first #1 hit.

Tony, because of you we have your songs in our heart forever. ❤

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

The first man not named Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray to win the #Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles since 2002.

@CarlosAlcaraz 🆕

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

No, that's fine, I didn't want to sit down anyway... #poodle

[charlie mackesy @charliemackesy]

Happy 75th Birthday NHS. To all the brilliant staff and volunteers.There’s a print of this with all profits going to NHS Charities Together. ❤️ https://t.co/k4Yxx4xdO4

[NHS England @NHSEngland]

75 years on, it is the people who make us. 💙 #NHS75

[charlie mackesy @charliemackesy]

❤️

[Loulou W @LoulouWebb]

@paullewismoney Colin

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

9 years ago today 😢

Anyway, sod all that death crap. Here are Rik Mayall's 5 mantras for LIFE!!