Good Morning Tuesday Birds!

[Smowball]

Happy Bonfire Night! Not that I think anyone is allowed to have bonfire night anymore! I was talking to my friend about this  yesterday, and she said how she used to love her schools bonfire night as they had a proper big bonfire which you could feel the heat from a hundred feet away, with a big guy on it, and a fab fireworks display. Now it's too 'Health & Safety' so we don't have them just incase......Mind you, they don't do many firework displays now these days either ! 
Anybody up to anything interesting today??

 

[ubasses]

I haven't seen anything advertised for tonight in the town.  Thought there might be something near the harbour.  I also remember the annual display when I was a child.  There was a local very wide bridge which had been closed to traffic as unsafe many years before.   The scout hut was on it and they put on a fantastic display every year.

Not much on today, pick up our prescriptions, pop in for a coffee then back to cleaning the UPVC window frames on the outiside of the house and Mr U will finish painting the balcony balustrade.

[Cloverjo]

My son's school used to have a big bonfire night and firework display. It was quite fun with the games and the food. 

Tonight, we'll hear random fireworks all over the place. Thankfully, my normally fearful cat isn't scared by them. 

[Smowball]

Morning ubasses - yes I keep looking at our kitchen ceiling as it is desperate to be painted. Don't think I trust my accident prone self up a step ladder -  ust keep hinting more to MrSmow lol.

Hi Clover - yes we've actually had a lot of fireworks for the last few days already but that's down to Diwali I believe, and again my two,Molly & Daisy,  don't seem bothered by them.

[DDIL]

Good Morning

Interesting fact - after the plot to blow up the houses of parliament and the fallout from that - the King made it law that the 5th November had to be celebrated.

It was only repealed in 1859!

[Smowball]

Morning DDIL. No, I didn't know that lol.

[barry1010]

There is always a huge firework display at our local park, it was last Saturday.  Extra buses are run because the car park always gets rammed (£10 for park your car on that day).  Fireworks set to a theme and music, fairground, fast food stalls.

https://www.himleyhallandpark.co.uk/fireworks-tickets

Quite a few have bonfires and fires in their back gardens, too.  A neighbour has kindly told us their fireworks will start at 9 tonight.

A pub up the road is doing a bonfire night, too, with baked potatoes, fireworks, hotdogs and burgers.  They do a silent one at 18:30 and the normal type at 20:00 which is a great idea.  Not everyone enjoys the bangs and cracks

I miss the days of jumping jacks being let off on a crowded bus and catherine wheels spinning free of their posts, heading my way.  Bangers being let off in galvanised dustbins, loud enough to rupture eardrums.

Smallest brother being dressed up as guy, penny for the guy!  Huge bonfires on the bombed buidings.  Nicking the wood from other gangs bonfires, protecting our own.  We always had to rebuild our bonfire just before lighting it, in case any hedgehogs were sheltering.  

[pastafreak]

Good morning from a grey and cold west country. It will be noisey here...it started on Halloween. There's a big display on the Hoe tonight. Toby isn't bothered thankfully. I'm jn all day...no need to go out as I picked up some bits at lidl yesterday, and I've got a Royal Mail parcel due at some point.

https://www.visitplymouth.co.uk/whats-on/bonfire-night-p1988563

[Smowball]

Morning barry - that all sounds great fun! I like the idea that they've thought up the idea of the silent one for animals/people who don't like the noise.

[Smowball]

Morning pasta! Wow, that display/bonfire looks huge! What fun! 

[pastafreak]

It is huge! I've not been in ages though. When I had my lurcher Sally, it was time to shut the curtains and turn the sound on the telly up...she was terrified all night. She'd hear the fireworks...or thunder...before I ever did.

[pastafreak]

To add...I can remember it being pretty damn cold too. Not tonight...we are having some very mild weather. 

[Smowball]

Yes, again Bonfire Night  used to always be freezing! It's really damp and mild here today tho.