Anyone doing anything for Bonfire night?

I am going to a Bonfire and Hog Roast at Sawley Marina with real ale.

All welcome :)

Baking flapjacks with the kids and then going to pub for bonfie and fireworks.......

blackheath fireworks! ooooooooooh i love bonfire night. sparklers! pretty colours! loud noises! what with this and halloween i might die from all the excitement.

don't forget to wear gloves, kids. and stand well back.

bloodynora wrote: blackheath fireworks! ooooooooooh i love bonfire night. sparklers! pretty colours! loud noises! what with this and halloween i might die from all the excitement.

don't forget to wear gloves, kids. and stand well back.

YOU are in Blackheath on bonfire night?.. Christ. That's a bit too close.

Just don't wake the dead with all that banging.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

bloodynora wrote: blackheath fireworks! ooooooooooh i love bonfire night. sparklers! pretty colours! loud noises! what with this and halloween i might die from all the excitement.

don't forget to wear gloves, kids. and stand well back.

YOU are in Blackheath on bonfire night?.. Christ. That's a bit too close.

Just don't wake the dead with all that banging.

Suddenly bonfire night sounds quite a bit more intriguing...

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

bloodynora wrote: blackheath fireworks! ooooooooooh i love bonfire night. sparklers! pretty colours! loud noises! what with this and halloween i might die from all the excitement.

don't forget to wear gloves, kids. and stand well back.

YOU are in Blackheath on bonfire night?.. Christ. That's a bit too close.

Just don't wake the dead with all that banging.

Suddenly bonfire night sounds quite a bit more intriguing...

Errmmm... not really.

Just to explain, Blackheath is called Blackheath, cos all the plague victims are buried there (I think 6 million(?)). Its a big wide open space which you cant build on.

I'm busy I'm afraid. Got a bargeload of barrels here that some Spanish geezer wants me to deliver to the steps near Westminster bridge.

Doctor? wrote: I'm busy I'm afraid. Got a bargeload of barrels here that some Spanish geezer wants me to deliver to the steps near Westminster bridge.

Jesus Al, where you get that picture of Robert Smith ?

I'll be in the sky somewhere............ and no, not on a rocket, in a rocket, or even with Rocket! :)

Where yer going Kath?

Flying Teapot wrote: Where yer going Kath?

Nice

Get a Helicopter to Monaco

Intend to go - but not by helicopter! Not unless blindfolded and heavily sedated....

My local bonfire has been cancelled due to health and safety

However, there will still be an expensive and impressive firework display.

I'm also going for the pie and peas (with red cabbage) and maybe room for a little Parkin.

Love it.

Dodjem wrote: My local bonfire has been cancelled due to health and safety

However, there will still be an expensive and impressive firework display.

I'm also going for the pie and peas (with red cabbage) and maybe room for a little Parkin.

Love it.

Whats Parkin?

Are you setting me up for a joke?

It's either:

a) What you do with your car when you want to get out

or

b) A lovely moist ginger cake that is traditionally made at this time of year

Dodjem wrote:

b) A lovely moist ginger cake that is traditionally made at this time of year

Kath wrote: Intend to go - but not by helicopter! Not unless blindfolded and heavily sedated....

I will be expecting a photy of you on the GP course naturally.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: I'm going to burn a picture of Jemma

I love you too pumpkin

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Of course, I don't know when Bonfire night is...

And you call yourself an Aggie fan!?!?!

Watch it, my ma's name's Aggie!!!

Doctor? wrote: Watch it, my ma's name's Aggie!!!

was here maiden name do?

Burt Reynolds wrote: Just to explain, Blackheath is called Blackheath, cos all the plague victims are buried there (I think 6 million(?)). Its a big wide open space which you cant build on.

I thought it was because The Heath (soil and plants) were a darker colour than the fields round the Thames that it overlooked? :)

When I went there last Friday, however, I didn't notice any difference! :p

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Of course, I don't know when Bonfire night is...and I'm too damn lazy to look it up...

It's where we celebrate the fact that a bloke (Guy Fawkes) nearly blew up Parliament on 5th November, but didn't quite succeed.

So, we light a bonfire (placing a "guy" [a dummy, not a real person!] - to represent Guy Fawkes - in the middle of the fire) and set off fireworks... Hmmm...

And, of course, it doesn't appear to be limited to 5th November - people set off fireworks for about a month around that date (and beyond, as Christmas/New Year celebrations coincide) which annoys all the neighbour's cats/dogs!

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Tex wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Of course, I don't know when Bonfire night is...

And you call yourself an Aggie fan!?!?!

are you trying to confuse the English?

At every opportunity!

Don't burn these Guys though...

noooooooooooo?! pearce and ritchie? really?!

garvey i get. all beardy and beary. growl.

I really used to lust after Guy Ritchie (pre Madonna), and I've never fancied Guy Pearce but he's called Guy and so was included.

You're right Noley, Beardy, gravelly voiced, slightly portly Garvey is the bestest

Dodjem wrote: Don't burn these Guys though...

Your taste in mens stinking J

especially the fat cunt at the bottom the other two are just a pair a tits

What's up Gaz? I can hardly put Elvis Costello in that list.

They are just men named Guy. The men I like in Celebrity World are much better looking

Dodjem wrote: What's up Gaz? I can hardly put Elvis Costello in that list.

Whats Elvis Costello got to do with it

Gazman wrote:

Dodjem wrote: What's up Gaz? I can hardly put Elvis Costello in that list.

Whats Elvis Costello got to do with it

nothing, but he is a secret lemonade drinker.

Doctor? wrote: Watch it, my ma's name's Aggie!!!

Saggy Aggie???!!:D

Gazman wrote:

Dodjem wrote: What's up Gaz? I can hardly put Elvis Costello in that list.

Whats Elvis Costello got to do with it

What's Costello gotta do,gotta do,gotta do with it???

What's Elvis?

Just a sec-on-hand emohhh-shonnn....

Edit: Anyone christened Guy,does well to not be inhibited in life,in my opinion.. It is,to my mind,a gay as fuck name. Why do parents do this shit?I'm fucked if I know..

I put my foot down and my son has a proper man's name...Lucy

Guy??? what a fuckin unlucky name eh?

Nick King wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: Just to explain, Blackheath is called Blackheath, cos all the plague victims are buried there (I think 6 million(?)). Its a big wide open space which you cant build on.

I thought it was because The Heath (soil and plants) were a darker colour than the fields round the Thames that it overlooked? :)

When I went there last Friday, however, I didn't notice any difference! :p

I just googled it, and it seems to be a contentious issue. I've always been told that the pits on Blackheath were used for plague victims after the 1666 plague (I thought), although the name Blackheath was already in use by then. Just seen references to it being used as a burial ground after the Black Death in the 1340's, and then some references to it all being a load of old bollocks.

Normally, there is no smoke without fire, and it sounds like a thing for Time Team, as no one has ever really dug the area.

http://blackheathbugle.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/are-people-buried-beneath-blackheath/

I would guess that if Neil Rhinds says it's not so, then... :)

Gazman wrote:

Dodjem wrote: What's up Gaz? I can hardly put Elvis Costello in that list.

Whats Elvis Costello got to do with it

Hmmmmm...........something bout that avatar?

Do I love him, do I hate him..........

He's scottish.

My heart tells me no. My lungs tell me I must love him (well everytime I hear him, I cough)

Didnt quite come out as I intended....but then..........hey........what does?

Frankie Boyle? :)

Does Bonfire night have something to do with Samhain or Hallow's Eve? It seems like there is many different things mixed together over the centuries, all having something to do with dead people this time of year.