Remember, remember the 5th of November

Hi everyone :)

So I went to my first proper Bonfire Night :)  I know we went to one when I was here in '98 but I'm pretty sure that wasn't a proper one as I don't remember it really being that big and I was 5 - so it should've seemed like it was the size of the sun or something by comparison !

But anyway, we didn't actually go on the monday 5th but on the saturday night they held a Guy Fawkes celebration on St. Martins commons and my friends Pria and Terry and I decided to brave the cold weather and go. It had been raining fairly solidly all day and we were a bit concerned that it wouldn't go ahead but we checked before we set out and decided to go and it was fantastic. We'd seen the bonfire being built over the previous couple of weeks and knew it was going to be massive but it was so different lit up and it was amazing!

[Sorry I don't have access to any of the photos from it at the moment but I'll try and get them and I'll do an edit when I do so you can see :) ]

The Bonfire itself was probably the size of our entire family room and about 11/2 stories high. On the top of it they'd built a castle and hung a dummy from a rope outside of it - a bit grim, but also very cool :)

There were loads of stalls set up selling mulled wine and food and all the usual things and they had fire jugglers and fire eaters that performed and were really good. We wandered about and had a look at everything and ate delcious food and drank wine and generally had a nice time and then they had a fireworks display to finish the night. The fireworks were way better than I expected considering it was just put on my a parish in Jersey and I love fireworks anyway so it was a really nice way to end the evening. After the fireworks we walked home and as we were walking we could see the fireworks that some of the houses and the other parishes were setting off and we watched them as we went.

Sorry again for the lack of photos in what was a fairly visual-based event but they were taken on someone elses camera and I didnt think to get them...but I'll try and update ASAP :)

xx toodle-pip