drydruid and ollie’s travels

“Burn ‘im! Burn ‘im!” they shouted from the streets and upper floor shop windows.

“Burn ‘im! Burn ‘im!” they demanded as effigies of Guy Fawkes, the Pope, and Seagulls paraded past, or it might have been a canon, cross, standard, or man decorated - ladened - with Chinese firecrackers and rook scarer’s, colloquially called squibs and rousers; each and every one a small but extremely noisy and pots of sparklers of every color and description.

It happens once a year only. It happens nowhere like it happens in Lewes, Sussex, UK. And in all our travels, we’ve never seen anything like this. It’s Bonfire Night.

I’ll leave it to you to read about Mr. Fawkes and Bonfire Night at Wikipedia or some other source. I had to tell ya’ll about this parade and share some of the images, please follow the link.

dd