Remember remember the 5th of November

in #tradition5 years ago

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So tonight is the 5th of November also known in the UK as Bonfire Night. This is the night that people have bonfires and burn effigy of Guy Fawkes. He's the Guy who tried to blow up the houses of parliament.

The night is usually celebrated with fireworks and large get together's and people eating all manner of traditional foods.

When i was a child the whole street got together and came to a central bonfire. People would bring their own fireworks and people would eat....
Pork Pies and mushy peas with mint sauce
Jacket potato's cooked in the ashes of the fire
Toffee apples and treacle toffee
Parkin and ginger cake.

Its was one of the highlights of the year as a child and almost as exciting as Christmas. Halloween was never celebrated and usually went by unnoticed. Today seems to be the other way around.

I've been very busy today with family problems and other things so i think tomorrow we'll have a special bonfire tea. I'll take a few pictures and probably do another write up

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Oh man! Sounds like quite the tradition! The food sounds great minus mushy peas! LOL, i am 100% into fresh juicy cooked green garden peas... but will pass on the mushy ones, thanks 😉 oddly enough, my first born was about 3 when she started asking for mushy peas ... out of the blue! I was taken back when i heard that! Her dad is Welsh, must be some good ol' dna past life memory or something! Best wisges in your family troubles. Must be something in the air as i had a bit of a break down on my son over his lack of doing his chores the past few days. We lived to tell about it. I think parenthood might just do me in!! ...right, i will repeat my current mantra 'Never Give Up'. You've got this @dune69, so do I.

Lol at the mushy peas :-)

Yep families... who'd have em :-) You think it would get better as they get older but nope not always and they are always your children.
My problems are with older family members who turn back into children.. Getting it from both sides.. you get to be the meat in the hassle sandwich :-)

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