Bonfire night

[RegandPat]

Every bonfire night we venture out to our local park and pay £5 per head to watch the display except this year.
Pat and I got this part time job and we don't finish to 8.30pm so may miss it.
The good thing is we are working in a high rise office building that looks over the park.
This could be the best bonfire night ever, sitting on the directors chair with coffee and biscuits and getting paid for it as well.
Don't tell or we may get the sack.
Reg and Pat

 

[Essexeddie]

Nice one.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

I'd ban the loud exploding fireworks, I just cannot see the need for them. I would also confine the fireworks to Nov. 5th and organised displays only.
As I write this they are going off outside and we will have to put up with this until after the new year. Poor wildlife suffers along with countless numbers of pets.
This will never happen though because retailers make too much money despite the fact we no longer manufacture them, importing them from China.
R.I.P. Brocks & Standard

 

[ValA.]

We'll be in the garden on the 5th, with the chimenea lit (no room for a bonfire these days), with family, and friends. We have the traditional (up here in Yorkshire) pie and peas, jacket potatoes, parkin and plenty of glasses of wine or beer, and a few small fireworks for the kids. We used to do a similar thing when we were small - neighbours got together and had a bonfire and a few fireworks. We used to buy small fireworks with our pocket money, one at a time! Then the larger fireworks came along, there were organised displays, and then they started having fireworks for weeks before and after, and Christmas, New Year, and any other day in between.
I'm with Lord B - small fireworks on the 5th November only!

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Well last night it started raining about 6ish and by 7ish the heavens had opened. I said to Her Ladyship that it just proves there's a God

Did that stop them??? Nah!!!!!!!!!
By 7.30 it started. No wonder they were shell shocked in the WW1 trenches. Thankfully I knew that these wouldn't harm me although my oldest dog, now shaking under my computer desk, didn't realise this. Luckily it doesn't bother our youngest.
The plonkers must have been drenched through to the skin and the last ones going off that I heard was at 1.40am. No doubt it will start all over again tonight and finish sometime in early January

 

[Robtel]

Please spare a thought for poor Guy Fawkes, the last honest man to enter Parliament!