Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Bonfire Night

Remember, remember the 5th of November. I recently watched "V for Vendetta" in lieu of the 5th of November aka "Bonfire night." As some of you might know, bonfire night celebrates the capture of Guy Fawkes back in 1605 for conspiracy to blow up Parliament. Here in Scotland, fireworks have gone off every night for the past month. Sunday night sounded like a war outside, I've never seen so many fireworks! We sat with hundreds of people on a hill just behind our flat to watch as the huge bonfire was lit and then more fireworks. I have to speculate whether this was all in celebration for the capture or Guy Fawkes...or was it celebrating the 'would have been' succession of Guy Fawkes in overthrowing Parliament...fireworks-explosions-fire?? Check out the website at http://www.bonefire.org/guy/




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