Every year mainstream politicians, newsreaders, and other people in the public eye seem to start wearing their Remembrance Day poppies ever earlier.  However, the first poppies to be seen in 2017 were not in the lapels of politicians, but for sale near the entrance to a gym near Tooting Bec tube station, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Image: 19 September 2017, © Carlos Bruzon, who reports that the poppies had been on sale for at least a week.