Bonfire
Night is celebrated across the UK on 5 November. The date marks the
failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament by Guy Fawkes1 along with a group of co-conspirators in London in 1605.
The
intention was to kill King James I and wipe out everyone in government.
The group were Catholic extremists who wanted to return England to the
Catholic faith. One of the conspirators had a friend in the Houses of
Parliament and sent a letter to him, warning him to stay away from the
House on the day the attack was supposed to take place. The letter was
intercepted and handed to the king.
Meanwhile,
Guy Fawkes and friends, having formulated their plan, known as the
‘Gunpowder Plot’, had rolled 36 barrels of gunpowder into the cellars
of the Houses of Parliament, and were waiting for the king to arrive
when guards broke in and arrested them. They were tortured and executed.
Nowadays
on Bonfire Night people organise their own parties or attend big
organised fireworks displays. They stand around the bonfire, set off
fireworks and eat lots of nice warming Bonfire night foods, like sausages and jacket potatoes. They might also remark…
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
We see no reason,
Why gunpowder treason,
Should ever be forgot!
…Which
sort of suggests that people rather admire the cheek of Guy Fawkes,
trying to blow up Parliament, and that’s why they celebrate Bonfire
night, rather than celebrating the fact that his plot failed and he was
caught!
Fireworks
that are sent up on Bonfire night have really evocative names like,
Roman Candles, Mount Vesuvius and Golden Shower. There are also
Catherine Wheels that spin and Sparklers that children write their
names in the air with.
Children
make life-sized effigies of Guy Fawkes which are called Guys, to put
onto the bonfires. The English have been burning effigies to mark Guy
Fawkes’ treason for almost 400 years. The tradition started in 1606,
the year after the Gunpowder plot failed. In these first bonfires,
called ‘bone fires’ at the time, it wasn’t an effigy of Guy Fawkes that
was burned, but one of the Pope. It was not until 1806, two centuries
later, that the people started burning effigies of Guy Fawkes instead.
Children make a Guy by stuffing some old clothes with newspapers, craft
a head out of material, and either draw a face on it or buy a special
cardboard Guy Fawkes mask.a For a few days beforehand children are
pushing guys around in prams, push chairs and go-carts, saying ‘A penny
for the guy’. Adults then give them money – how much depends on how
good the guy is. The money is then spent on sparklers, or at least it
would be, if children were still allowed to buy fireworks in the UK, so
it is probably spent on sweets instead.
CAMPFIRE BURNING CAMPFIRE BURNING……arghhh
i cant remember the lyrics….how could i?????
ITS ABSOLUTELY NO!
BONFIRE NITE
The best picture so far i like,taken with long shutter
both of us look indeed horrible here.haih…..nvm la… this is after
the long 180mins of revision in the library ,grocery shopping in
Morrison +
the nice TGI Frriday jack Daniel chicken wing and the very NOT
NICE jack the DANIel full rack of ribs + getting lost in hillfields
trying to find this bonfire nite location.
BTW BONFIRE NITE IS actually POLLUTION NITE.
this picture actually look like in the space…….somewhere FAR FAR AWAY
DEEP DEEP IN THE GALAXY
WERE ONCE GEORGE LUCAS CREATED STAR WARS…did he? or did me?
nice??
the girls……..obviously……
taken by my girl
that’s it folks….come back next year again and pay us 1.50pounds for student
The firemen is on strike again,just that this time the location is right infront of the fireworks BOOM
as you can see,all the nice pictures are taken by me….
and here is one of the NOT GOOD shots by her
Where is her the other half????
probably too busy taking this picture
The following are the video in the bonfire for those who miss it
Fireworks
part 1
Fireworks
part 2
Fireworks
part 3
Fireworks
part 4
Fireworks
part 5
Fireworks
part 6
Fireworks
part 7
FYI iam blogging this at 0130hrs,the wind is blowing at so fast until i can hear the Wooooow..woooooowww
SCARY
just hope the roof tiles wont come out tonight
