November 5th memories!

[chiquita]

Things ain't what they used to be! When I was small there were no firework exhibitions, we used to have our own fire in the back garden. So much has changed now, for instance, whens the last time you saw a guy? You know, the figure made from old clothes sewn together, stuffed with newspaper, who'd proudly sit on top of the bonfire? He has gone out of fashion it seems. Shame, as the whole thing is about Guy Fawkes, or supposed to be! I remember helping my brother make our guy, stuffing newspaper into a stocking for his head, and putting a mask on him. I remember one year the head fell off, and my dad spotted all the girlie magazines we'd used to stuff it with! (Not mine!) My brother got in hot water about that! lol! I also remember setting off bangers in our side alley, scaring next doors dog so it started howling. And being chased by a jumping jack that my brother had lit behind me! Then there was the year that burning paper blew into the field behind our house and set the dry grass on fire! The fire engines were pretty! And the kids who would knock at the door and say 'penny for the guy', and the minute you closed the door the guy would get up and walk away! Ah yes, so many funny, silly, sad memories!!
Things just ain't what they used to be!!

[fairywishes]

Oh chiq, i LOVED bonfire night when i was a kid and PENNY FOR THE GUY was just that ... if you got 2p it was amazing lol

I also loved carol singing , if someone said GO AWAY you went away. I had a big group of aunts and uncles who where close in age to me and so like brothers and sisters and they would shove me to the front to get the money and then promtly take it off me but i dint mind, it was great going round with them and it felt very SPECIAL.

Every year we have a small bonfire and fireworks for the kids, but last year a neighbours rocket nearly went through my face and burnt a hole in our garden table parasol.

Now the RACKET of fireworks starts in september and doesnt end till well into spring NOTHING is as it was.

NOTHING!

& im not a moaning pensioner. Im 36 for pitys sake.

Kids now just bang on the doors of feeble old women and scream and shout at them if they dont reward them with money. SICK!

Sadly, i doubt very much if things will ever resemble the way they used to be.

Im not one for harkin on about how things should not change. I understand they have to , but for the progress we love, we seem to have lost so much.

[mogmog2005]

this isn't a memory but more a symbol of how much things have changed, the town where my husband works have decided that a bonfire is a health and safety risk.....



...so they are going to start a bonfire in a secure location and film it, the night of their fireworks display the film of the bonfire is going to be projected onto a big screen!



HOW MUCH FUN WILL THAT BE????

[chiquita]

this isn't a memory but more a symbol of how much things have changed, the town where my husband works have decided that a bonfire is a health and safety risk.....



...so they are going to start a bonfire in a secure location and film it, the night of their fireworks display the film of the bonfire is going to be projected onto a big screen!



HOW MUCH FUN WILL THAT BE????

Oh no, thats taking things a bit too far! It will be no fun at all, might as well go to the cinema if you're going to watch it on a big screen!

[mogmog2005]

lol i know!

its ashame kids wil never experience how things should be!


the world is going mad!

[chiquita]

Oh chiq, i LOVED bonfire night when i was a kid and PENNY FOR THE GUY was just that ... if you got 2p it was amazing lol

I also loved carol singing , if someone said GO AWAY you went away. I had a big group of aunts and uncles who where close in age to me and so like brothers and sisters and they would shove me to the front to get the money and then promtly take it off me but i dint mind, it was great going round with them and it felt very SPECIAL.

Every year we have a small bonfire and fireworks for the kids, but last year a neighbours rocket nearly went through my face and burnt a hole in our garden table parasol.

Now the RACKET of fireworks starts in september and doesnt end till well into spring NOTHING is as it was.

NOTHING!

& im not a moaning pensioner. Im 36 for pitys sake.

Kids now just bang on the doors of feeble old women and scream and shout at them if they dont reward them with money. SICK!

Sadly, i doubt very much if things will ever resemble the way they used to be.

Im not one for harkin on about how things should not change. I understand they have to , but for the progress we love, we seem to have lost so much.

Carol singing! Oh yes, we had great fun doing that! And would earn quite a bit too. I think they paid us to go away, as none of us could sing a straight note! lol!
The kids nowadays have spoilt halloween too with their 'ghost busting' and throwing eggs! I always get some treats in for the children who call round, and they put a lot of effort into it, their costumes are great! But there is always the spoiler element, those who just want to cause trouble. We would cause mischief years ago, kids will be kids, but not on the scale of today. We had more respect for people, and if we ever forgot that we'd soon get a thick ear!!

[mogmog2005]

Carol singing! Oh yes, we had great fun doing that! And would earn quite a bit too. I think they paid us to go away, as none of us could sing a straight note! lol!
The kids nowadays have spoilt halloween too with their 'ghost busting' and throwing eggs! I always get some treats in for the children who call round, and they put a lot of effort into it, their costumes are great! But there is always the spoiler element, those who just want to cause trouble. We would cause mischief years ago, kids will be kids, but not on the scale of today. We had more respect for people, and if we ever forgot that we'd soon get a thick ear!!

my late grandma had tinned (taken out of the tin of course lol) peaches thrown at her windows by teenagers when she told em to bog off because they were too old! she gave the littleones treats but 15+ year olds take the P*ss.

There is no need for them to be so disrespectful

[Paulwillhappy]

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[dragonmist]

I have never liked bangers. A boy threw one when I was about 5 and it lodged in my Wellington boot. I was lucky as it was a dud, and I just got a small burn from the fuse. I can remember baking potatoes in the ashes of the bonfire, and my Dad roasting chestnuts on an old spade over the flames, and my Nan coming out with enamel mugs of hot home made soup to warm our hands up. Dad used to get loads of pretty fireworks, Catherine wheels, and rockets, but no bangers.
We went to the Legoland firework display a few years back, and as a display it was excellent, but it didn't have the atmosphere of the family gatherings. No soup, no jacket spuds, no chestnuts and no family.

[shady-lady-45uk]

I dont like fireworks there a waste of money nowadays not like they used to be when i was little...........used to look foreward to it when i was small.cos of it being my birthday as well used to get really excited but we all used to have a big bonfire where we lived all the neighbours and friends would come round and have allsorts to eat.........potatoes thrown into the fire treacle toffee my nan made and someone else would make toffee apples, much more fun then to what its like now........bring back the old times ...........