Fire! Bonfire night 2014
Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Bonfire night aka Guy Fawkes Night.
But no-one really calls it Guy Fawkes Night any more. And I hardly ever see a "Penny for the Guy" any more, either.
Poor old Guy. Vilified for centuries for plotting to blow up the Houses of Parliament when secretly most of the population wouldn't mind doing the same thing.
In the UK, Halloween seems to have taken over from Guy Fawkes night as a thing for the kids to get excited about. Basically because all the racketeering supermarkets can sell a load of plastic tat and sweets to the hapless punters. The main money makers out of Guy Fawkes ( the sale of fireworks, permitting) were the kids who stuffed rags inside bags, tied them together and stuck a mask on - (the more homemade it was, the better) and pushed it round from door to door in an old pram.
Taken in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England on 5th November 2014 with a Nikon D40x DSLR.
Fire! Bonfire night 2014
Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Bonfire night aka Guy Fawkes Night.
But no-one really calls it Guy Fawkes Night any more. And I hardly ever see a "Penny for the Guy" any more, either.
Poor old Guy. Vilified for centuries for plotting to blow up the Houses of Parliament when secretly most of the population wouldn't mind doing the same thing.
In the UK, Halloween seems to have taken over from Guy Fawkes night as a thing for the kids to get excited about. Basically because all the racketeering supermarkets can sell a load of plastic tat and sweets to the hapless punters. The main money makers out of Guy Fawkes ( the sale of fireworks, permitting) were the kids who stuffed rags inside bags, tied them together and stuck a mask on - (the more homemade it was, the better) and pushed it round from door to door in an old pram.
Taken in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England on 5th November 2014 with a Nikon D40x DSLR.