Bonfire Night
 

Anyone do anything for Bonfire Night or has cultural assimilation and local by-laws long since snuffed out this tradition?

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i thought bonfire night had died a death back in the UK anyway and been replaced by haloween?

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Not down our way. There's still a big bonfire on the local rec, with fireworks, soup and dog rolls. Lots of people bring their own Guy. Sod Halloween that's too American.

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We have some fireworks and a gun, I expect we'll ignite things and fire some shots into the air.

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There was a fire safety man on TV the other day, predictably talking about fireworks and safety - he then went to demonstrate how to light a firework using one of those cheap plastic lighters:blink: Although why he bothered I don't know, as fireworks are illegal in most places in greater vancouver (or require expensive permits and/or qualified supervision etc). What a load of crap that is - you can't even buy a family pack of standard fireworks round here. Presumably sparklers are ok if you've done a course or something:frown:

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It has, in the same way New Years Eve has replaced Christmas.

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I'm likely to see more bonfires than I saw trick or treaters here.

fire + food + 'explosives' + pubs seems to be more popular than wandering in the wind and rain door to door for sweets.

of course I can only answer for my little part of yorks but we seem to prefer fire in a big way here - celebrate guy fawkes;)

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I celebrate it with loads of fireworks. Its too cold this time of year though, so I usually do it on July 1st:sneaky::lol:,

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We have fireworks and a bonfire. Some traditions need to be preserved.

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I had heard Newfies celebrated it. I was trying to explain bonfire toffee and treacle to a cradle the other day, along with Guy Fawkes night.

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Long since forgotten about.

Not anything to do with local laws. Just haven't seen the point since arriving in Canada.

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I suppose the loss of one's cultural identity is just a reality when emigrating. :(

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I'm not sure I had any sort of strong cultural identity when I arrived here. I was only 16.

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You were a scouser.

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I suppose I still am but it seems rather irrelevant today.

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Indeed.

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Given that we live in a city where the houses are all made of wood, I am very glad that the locals don't have a great tradition of building huge bonfires and drinking beer.

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Canadian Tire - a choice of about 200 rifles but no fireworks because they're too dangerous. We got some sparklers at the dollar store last year and managed to not burn down the subdivision after lighting them in the backgarden.

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It never has been a tradition here. What's your point?

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We have celebrated it by going to friends with friends (both mixed canadian/british partnerships).

We eat, drink beer. we have a fire in fire pit and the kids burn mini homemade guys and have sparklers.

Any celebration is fun.

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Neither has Diwali, or Chinese New Year, or........

Playing with fire, burning things, and eating toffee apples is great.

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We accidentally set fire to a bit of rural New Brunswick about five years ago with a bloody great bonfire (lots of frantic running about with a hose and buckets of water). Thought we had better give it a miss after that :eek:

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That was you?:eek:

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Just kidding :rofl:

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We're in a BE meetup group in Edmonton, and have one arranged at someones acreage. Lookin forward to it!

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The infamous Chipman incident! Don't think we made the news :rofl:

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Fair enough. But this toffee apple thing? We never did that in Geordieland.

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Loved them as a kid. Preferred the hot dogs and a Styrofoam cup of hot tomato soup, and little burn marks randomly found on my body after sparkler "sword" fights.

Brings back fond memories

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Memories indeed. How on earth did they manage to get the soup that hot? It was more of a sensation than a taste.

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Well I bought a few fireworks from the places that popped up along Hastings last week - Byelaws say they may only be let off on Halloween - stuff that - mine are going on Friday - :)

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My...you lived in Chipman....could you get any more out of the way ?

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Given Souvette's previous form with explosives and fires, I'm glad she has no interest in celebrating Bonfire Night.

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We did in Co Durham.

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Having only recently discovered when and what Bonfire Night is, I am quite looking forward to setting off fireworks.

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Your graphic is a bit excessive, we set off all the good ones on that barrel in the paddock. I think we have half a dozen fire crackers and some sparklers. Still, if we drop them into someone's septic vent we should be able to cause a bang.

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In town we are not allowed them (though you do occasionally see them going off) out at the village where we have the lake house you can have them. But it is usually too cold by now to even think of standing there going oooh aaaah. So we tend to give it a miss, sometimes I miss it, sometimes I don't.

Guy Fawkes Night
 

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but just wanted to let the newcomers to Nova Scotia know that we are holding a Guy Fawkes Bonfire Night at Boulderwood Farm this Friday 5th November .
www.boulderwood.com its not far from Mount Uniake ..If you would like more info please contact me....thanks :thumbsup:

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THis more like it. Jumping jacks ere brilliant, they had a rather chaotic pattern. One landed in my Dad's wellies.

http://www.fireworkmuseum.co.uk/tit11.jpg

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Pie & peas followed by parkin pigs:thumbup:

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Cheesy peas?