... fireworks and a bonfire for November 5th at Bogle Towers. We cooked steak on the fire, and baked potatoes in the ashes, and then set off fireworks at the front of the house, inviting Joe, who lives opposite, and various people stopped by to enjoy it all...
We had wine, and Jamie and Joe enjoyed cigars as things drew to an end...all around us were the pops and bangs as rockets from various bonfire-parties whooshed up into the night sky scattering glittering red and green and golden stars...
Bonfire Night is much older than the Gunpowder Plot - people had them for All Saints Day, and probably for pagan festivals back before that .I have long been unconvinced about poor old Guy Fawkes as there was so much intrigue around the whole story caught up in the cruelties of the 17th century. But bonfires in November have a long long history and here we are in the 21st century still doing it all...
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