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[caddyman]

Remember, remember
The fifth of November.
The Gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no good reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should e'er be forgot.

When I was a kid I liked Guy Fawkes night. I suppose we all did. Bonfires, fireworks, roast chestnuts, hotdogs and potatoes roasted in the embers of the bonfire. We would go up to our friends' place and everyone would contribute a few shillings to make sure there was loads of food and a reasonable variety of fireworks.

And then, a few years later, we started going to the coast where one of the caravan site managers would stuff an old derelict caravan full of wood and burn that as a bonfire.

Great.

But the fireworks seemed just a touch quieter. It didn't sound like the first night on the Somme for hours on end, and the weeks preceding didn't feel like sniper alley with kids lobbing claymores around with abandon.

Somewhere it's all got mixed up with Halloween in the little thugs' mind and they roam the place hoping to trick with menaces rather than treat for fun.

Christ it sounds like the Red Army relieving Stalingrad out there....

Bah, humbug.

Remember, remember
The fifth of November.
The Gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no good reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should e'er be forgot.

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I got a pretty good display going there, with the sound turned down :)