Well certainly around here bonfire night tonight is a bit of a washout as it is chucking it down.
People seem to be straying away from bonfire night from what I see.
From past experience the week before bonfire night was far from quiet with all sorts of explosive devices going off.
As a kid I can recall running around with a pocket full of bangers (some home made and enhanced) chucking them at other kids and dodging the ones chucked at me. The other thing was various groups of kids nicking bits of wood to build quite big bonfires and defending your bonfire from other groups either H3ll bent on nicking your wood or burning your bonfire down before the night.
The other thing was that, I believe, this was the only time each year you could buy fireworks so it made sense to stock up for the forthcoming year because you never knew when you might get the urge to blow up some airfix models.
In one way it is kinda good that the health and safety facists put an end to all those shenanigans because quite a lot of kids used to get hurt or killed around this time.
But bonfire night does kind of feel a bit sterile nowadays.
