As many of you will know, November 5th is Guy Fawkes day in Britain. This essentially stems from some gunpowder plot where a fella called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament but the plans were foiled, and he was hung, drawn and quartered for his crimes. How that now constitutes into 'fireworks night' I don't quite know - but basically its a good excuse for the Brits to put together a dirty great big pile of rubbish, stick a fake figure on it (calling it the 'guy'), set off a load of fireworks (nearly taking off their arms in the process) and release the inner pyromaniac in all of us.
So Laura, Sara, Katie, Andy and I set off on Saturday night to the display in Carshalton. It was really good too, the fireworks went on for ages, and were, to be fair, rather impressive. Not 'light up the Harbour bridge' impressive, but still - for a local display, they were pretty spesh. And the music was really good (well, except for the unfortunate Celine Dion moment, but I guess we can forgive them that).
I couldn't quite believe just how many people turned out for this event, considering that at any time the heavens were about to erupt and dump a deluge on us (like it had been doing all day). The one bad thing about it all was that with the weather having been bad all day, the park was like "Wet 'n' Wild" - slip and slide! I was lucky not to stack it several times, including the one where Laura and I did a little slam dance (which caused a twinge in my back as I landed wrong - ow!).
Afterwards we went back to Katie and Andy's for chili jacket potatoes and to watch Wallace and Grommit (seeing as I have never seen any of the episodes and Laura had been going on about it because we were at the Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes recently...) - it was really good, a top evening!
Anyway, here's a bit of video I captured on my phone:
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