Penny for the Guy! (Bonfire Night in the UK)

Member Name: hanniea1

Product:	Bonfire Night in the UK
Date:	02/11/09 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Great family fun!

Disadvantages: Idiots who play with fireworks

It's that time of year when the smell of autumn leaves fill the air and its dark before you leave the office and when you leave the house.

It's also that time of year we remember, remember the 5th of November when we mark they failed plot of Guy Fawkes and his gang in blowing up the houses of parliament in 1605.

The day that we all go to public Firework displays or put on our own displays in our garden and have bonfires and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes that children used to make and get penny for back in the day. You don't see penny for the guy as much these days I am not sure why? Halloween seems to get bigger and bigger each year yet penny for the Guy is disappearing or maybe its just where I live?

I love bonfire night I love the smell of the bonfires and everyone looking all cosy in their big coats and woolly hats and scarf's. I love the food hotdogs, jacket potatoes and toffee apples and marshmallows!

But best of all I love going to Blackheath fireworks display. For starters I love Blackheath it is my favourite place in London and I cannot really say why, but anyway its where we spend our firework night or the weekend preceding/following depending on the day it falls.

I love the fact that the fireworks here are breathtaking every year and that over 65,000 people are in one place watching the same fireworks yet still I cannot walk more than a foot without bumping into an old friend. I love that I went here as a child and now my daughter now also goes and is so fond of it has been talking about it since September!

The only bit I don't like is 65,000 people trying to leave the heath at one time and the walk home in the peeing down rain last year was horrendous but all part of the fun.

I personally would not want to do fireworks in my own garden, although its probably big enough I am not confident they would be safe or that they would be anywhere near as good in comparison to those at the heath. I also do not appreciate the people who feel the need to let them of in the street or in daylight its just dangerous and pointless!

I would say that this is one British tradition we need to keep forget Halloween Bonfire Night is my Autumn favourite!

Summary: Fireworks are great in the right hands