Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Oct 31st 2009, 10:21 pm
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
mmmm Britt Ekland.....
Oct 31st 2009, 10:47 pm
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
And the soup should be tomato, not parsnip.
We never had toasted marshmallows either.
Nov 1st 2009, 12:59 am
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
The parsnip soup was a later addition. -- I had some posh friends in Hertfordshire.
The potatoes were usually burnt as Dad tried to cook them in the bonfire. There was usually talk of wrapping a hedgehog in mud and cooking it, we never did this thank God.
So all that was left was beans and sausages.
Oh and freezing cold feet from standing around in cold damp grass watching fireworks splutter and die.
Those were the days
The potatoes were usually burnt as Dad tried to cook them in the bonfire. There was usually talk of wrapping a hedgehog in mud and cooking it, we never did this thank God.
So all that was left was beans and sausages.
Oh and freezing cold feet from standing around in cold damp grass watching fireworks splutter and die.
Those were the days
I never liked Catherine wheels as I thought they'd set the fence on fire.
Nov 1st 2009, 1:39 am
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
It's fireworks night every night here - just stand outside and listen to the shots from across the river 
Nov 1st 2009, 1:58 am
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
I have not had a bonfire night since I left England. I would love to go to one this year. Anyone in Ontario, Durham Region having one?? 
Nov 1st 2009, 10:18 am
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Bonfire toffee and half cooked baked potatoes (we used to throw them in the embers wrapped in foil of course no one could wait the 2 hours it would actually take to cook them) were the norm at our house. I also remember my mum making Parkin Cake
Nov 1st 2009, 10:29 am
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Bloody luxury, we lived in a discarded Sainsbury's carrier bag on side o' road and watched other peoples fireworks going off! But we did have Parkin Cake (none of that south nancy marshmallow cre-app)
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Nov 1st 2009, 8:10 pm
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
I'm glad I grew up down south. 
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Nov 1st 2009, 8:24 pm
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
So do southerners have cucumber and watercress sarnies on Bonfire Night?
Nov 1st 2009, 8:27 pm
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Yes they do. As they are delicate souls they celebrate November 5th in June. They drink Pimms and sit in wicker lounge chairs around the croquet lawn. They prefer to be waited on by spotty young girls from Lancashire.