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

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

We did in Co Durham.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Pie & peas followed by parkin pigs

Cheesy peas?

'C'mon mam, think cheese, think peas.....'

Aaah, the memories. I worked at the Black Cat/Standard Fireworks Head Office for a month leading up to Bonfire Night 2004

http://www.blackcatfireworks.co.uk/index.htm

Rip raps, parkin cake, air bombs, baked spuds (peel off the charcoal first), treacle toffee, bengal matches and watching out for the scally who sticks a 3-2-1 Zero in a dog turd.

Halloween: whatever.

It seems as though the Newfies & some areas in Nanaimo still celebrate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Faw...Global_customs

All this reminissing is lovely

As a kid, we went to a small village called Fringford to celebrate Fireworks night.
Did a parade of burning torches, to light the stack of wood that had some dummy(and i dont mean a politician) in a chair strapped to the top, we would then go and get a jacket spud with beans from the village hall, and a hot(scalding) squash drink, sit on the wet grass, and wait for the fireworks to start, and when they did we were given sparklers, shown how to hold them and draw with them, while the parents went ooo and arrr.
We then would toast marshmellows, eat toffee apples and head home ...cold wet, high on sugar but very happy!!

We are going through the paperwork at present to emigrate to canada, i do hope we can celebrate this there...its one thing i would personally miss.