Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...


We'll be having our annual get together w/yummy food, even better dessert and sparklers for the kids. Not quite the festivities everyone back home will be having, but just as fun Are you doing anything tomorrow?

Sadly not

Pity there aren't more people willing to blow up Parliament.

wash your mouth out young man.

Fireworks are illegal in some areas...best to check before you set any off or light any bonfires. More here:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ight=fireworks

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ight=fireworks

Aye, illegal to buy them in Mass...doesn't seem much of a law about firing them off though...

but it is in Maine and they do have staties that follow you over state lines when your in maine, watching you buy them in NH, and it's a big fine

Anyway, we've got nothing planned...might fire off a few sparklers if I can find them, we'll see...

I'll be setting light to damn big bonfire down at the far end of the rear garden on a good 'excuse' night to clear its spot....

The fire will also be great for cooking burgers and bangers to the display of fireworks all around, as last year was. Hope the weather remains mild ...

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Ooo I wanna come to that. I'll bring the Guy.

Ooo no. How come?

No firework's and no Bonfire so it's rather impossible wouldn't you agree

Guy Fawkes was, without doubt, the best intentioned man to enter parliament.

"Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope. A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down. A ****** of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah! Hip hip hoorah!""

I've just made another Parkin cake...as the other one miraculously disappeared...

and DD is going to play with some sparklers over the grill outside...and we may even throw some bangers on there..

In the NE states of Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island even sparklers are banned.

really...wow they win the title for complete party poopers...

are people even allowed them on July 4th?

Nope banned means banned.