fire-works galore....this week has been full of cracking noises and loud bangs in the night all culminating tonight as i walked home in fear of being blown up in the dark....it is Burn's night or better known historically as Guy Fawke's.....the guy and his fellow conspirators who tried to set the House of Parliment on fire some 400 years ago....the conspiracy known as the Gunpowder plot (click to get more insight into the whole plot!).
but however it may be celebrated ....and for whatever-reasons today (because the parliment still exists, that the UK is what it is, or that Guy was such a courageous person...if a bit fanatical......, or because it is a great excuse to get lots of fire-works and play....and make lots of noise....) many Brits will recall themselves learning the following rhyme at nursery ....
what an interesting tradition. the night must have looked really beautiful.
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