Bonfire Night
Anybody doing anything for it? I know actually making a bonfire might not be possible for everyone, but does anybody...I don't know, throw a party or something?
I'm having friends over to watch V for Vendetta. Really excited about it! |
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We're going over to an early evening party at a brits house....looking at the emailed invite it will be mainly brits there with a smattering of others. I'm assuming no bonfire, but apparently they are planning fireworks...wonder how many we'll get off before the HOA rep comes knocking on the door....
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Re: Bonfire Night
Originally Posted by nejicano
(Post 8962469)
Anybody doing anything for it? I know actually making a bonfire might not be possible for everyone, but does anybody...I don't know, throw a party or something?
I'm having friends over to watch V for Vendetta. Really excited about it! |
Re: Bonfire Night
Originally Posted by nejicano
(Post 8962469)
Anybody doing anything for it? I know actually making a bonfire might not be possible for everyone, but does anybody...I don't know, throw a party or something?
I'm having friends over to watch V for Vendetta. Really excited about it! |
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Yup - as long as the bloody rain stops for a bit, we're having a bonfire at the neighbours with a GUY, and with our traditional hot dogs and burgers for munchies - and of course, the odd alcoholic beverage may be consumed. There's no way we were going to miss it - and the neighbours are all up for it - should be a good night!! :)
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This year will be having a few people over, using the fire pit I got for my birthday; so I have advised peeps to make mini-guys for burning. I will make a big one for display
In the last three or four years I have rounded up US citizens to go to a park with a beach and fire pits, but October bing what it is, it has always pissed down and with winds, and last year I had to struggle to keep people there long enough to cook a sausage and burn the guys. So compromise is the back garden, with its covered area if the 40% of rain comes true. Those that have been comming for a few years now, seem to enjoy it. I will be downloading V for Vendett today to have it on screen in the back garden too. Americans so often seem shocked when I explain what it is, they just hear : burning a human effigy (at best), I just call it "burn a catholic day" now, and go straight to the shock. |
Re: Bonfire Night
Originally Posted by kimilseung
(Post 8963676)
This year will be having a few people over, using the fire pit I got for my birthday; so I have advised peeps to make mini-guys for burning. I will make a big one for display
In the last three or four years I have rounded up US citizens to go to a park with a beach and fire pits, but October bing what it is, it has always pissed down and with winds, and last year I had to struggle to keep people there long enough to cook a sausage and burn the guys. So compromise is the back garden, with its covered area if the 40% of rain comes true. Those that have been comming for a few years now, seem to enjoy it. I will be downloading V for Vendett today to have it on screen in the back garden too. Americans so often seem shocked when I explain what it is, they just hear : burning a human effigy (at best), I just call it "burn a catholic day" now, and go straight to the shock. http://www.catholicleague.org/ |
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Re: Bonfire Night
Originally Posted by kimilseung
(Post 8963858)
What! are you telling me that is not the way it is percieved by some Americans when you try to explain bonfire night?
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DH saved a firework from the 4th of July, but he doesn't get home from work tonight till 11 so our neighbours may have a bit of a start...
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Wow, everyone seems to have great plans! So excited for you BE's having a proper bonfire. Jealous, but excited! I know what you mean about explaining it to people though. It's like...hmm, where to begin with this one?!
Sadly, have had to cancel plans for this evening as my immune system is on strike. I'm ill and exhausted. We'll celebrate belatedly, but the thought is there. Definitely going to make this a tradition, but next year I'm planning an actual bonfire. Hope everybody's nights go well! About time for those bonfires to be lit and Guy Fawkes' to burn! |
Re: Bonfire Night
We went to a bonfire on the beach with 115 fellow British ex pats in San Francisco, it was strange being surrounded by so many British accents :D
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Wish we hadn't bothered now :( I have the hangover from hell, but a great night :)
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I thought it rather fitting that ULA launched a Delta II out of Vandenberg AFB at 7.20 last night. As fireworks go, that was pretty frigging spectacular. I saw it from about 120 miles away :)
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Re: Bonfire Night
Originally Posted by sarahlou145
(Post 8964985)
We went to a bonfire on the beach with 115 fellow British ex pats in San Francisco, it was strange being surrounded by so many British accents :D
Are you all friends or is it a BE sort of thing that gets organised? |
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