Advantages: Fireworks Night Disadvantages: Fireworks Month
even rockets
Might not prove beyond our pockets.
Then came the day. Our own bonfire
Waits in the garden, piled high
With twigs and sticks, a hungry pyre
All ready to consume the guy,
Who sits despondently atop it -
Looks like he knows he's going to cop it.
The evening darkens, and the kittens
Have been shut in to quell their fright;
Meanwhile, we kids in woolly mittens
Impatiently await the night
While pale autumn sunlight wanes,
Excitement tingling through our veins.
Darkness descends, just for a while
For very soon a ruddy glow
Warms the horizon, as each pile
Of sticks is lit and bonfires grow
With billowing smoke and pungent haze.
We watch entranced as our own blaze
Consumes poor Guy, but spare no tears
(Unless some soot gets in our eyes)
To mourn his passing, for - cue cheers -
The highpoint ...
Advantages: A traditional celebration which can unite families and friends Disadvantages: Dangerous,expensive and frightening to animals and potentially deadly.
I have nothing against Bonfire Night as such. It conjures up images in my mind of potatoes roasting in the embers, and of happy anorak clad toddlers with shining faces gazing up to heaven on starlit nights.
As a child growing up in the 60s, November 5th was a special time. My dad would buy a small selection of fireworks, and place them in a special tin we kept from year to year. He would mysteriously disappear outside on missions to set "Catherine Wheels" in place. Then my grannie would set to baking "Parkin" which would fill the kitchen with the heavy aroma of ginger. Mum would buy treacle toffees, and we would wrap up warm with itchy woollen scarves and mittens to join our neighbours for the annual event.
I used to cast my mind back to that naughty night in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators were attempting to ...
Advantages: Activies and fun for all ages and tastes! Disadvantages: When rounded up, it can be quite pricey!
The best Holiday Resort I have ever been in Mauritius is The Domaine Les Pailles. As I briefly mentioned in one of my previous reviews, this is a humongous holiday resort which stretches out for miles and miles, and comprises of activities, fun and cuisine for every ages and tastes. It is situated at Pailles, a small town just a few minutes before Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. Finding the road to Domaines Les Pailles turned out to be quite difficult because there is one specific corner road we had to turn into and we kept missing roads! But once we got into the road which would take us to the resort, it was as if we'd immediately been shut out of the real world. As one approaches the resort, hill and mountain landscapes arise in welcome. In fact, the resort is nestled among hills, valleys and mountains. The long driveway is ...
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