Attended the 11 a.m. St David’s Day service at the Welsh Church of Central London, Eastcastle Street, City of Westminster, on Sunday 1 March.  The church was about half full, and about half of those present wore daffodils, either artificial or real. One woman wore a leek (Allium porrum) brooch. Simple glass vases of daffodils (Narcissus cv.) were placed around the church.

Most of the service was conducted in Welsh.  At its end people were invited to a simple lunch in the church hall, at which ‘there will be leek soup as it’s St David’s Day’.

Elsewhere in London, only one, rather deranged-looking, man was wearing a daffodil; he had probably picked it in a local park or garden without realising its significance on 1 March.

Both the Guards’ Memorial in St James’s Park and the Cenotaph were visited, but neither had St David’s Day wreaths placed on them.