Guy Fawkes (Cracker of a Night)

Ahh - the memories come flooding back. Its been a while since I have been able/allowed to experience the wonder of staging my own pyrotechnics show, but in England either the children don't blow off as many fingers or they just don't care if they do - Guy Fawkes or Cracker night is alive and well. We settled in on the roof of our house and watched the fireworks spectacular across the road on Clapham Common. The crowds were out in force for the display as well, and reports have that 20,000+ people came to Clapham to watch. And it would have been well worth the trip for anyone who made it.

Needless to say later that night, it came time for the Top Flat fireworks display, some 25 skyrockets set of in succession to the sound of Queen's "We will rock you" (Ok i made that last bit up). It had all the neighbours looking out the back window cheering us on. Either that or just making sure that we weren't blowing up the neighbourhood, as they were very loud with sound bouncing of all the brick buildings. After about a minute of brilliant colour and loud noise we were able to hold our heads high and retreat back to the house. £20 well spent.

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