the fifth of November............
Aha Guy Fawkes night! The Britsh excuse for building pyres and setting fire to effigies. Seems to be a fairly common practice throughout the world, any excuse to burn something - I'm sure this says something about human nature.
V for Vendetta is on TV tonight - I quite like Hugo Weaving's speech which is further down the post.
I still haven't read Alan Moore's graphic novel although a lot of my friends were reading it when it came out, I wasn't so keen on the graphics, prefered Stray Toasters which has pretty colours.
The British Embassy school here in Athen's usually does a joint Halloween Guy Fawkes celebration, (if you don't mind paying 10 euros a head to get in), we went a couple of times but stopped after the great pumkin disaster of 2006, as it turns out, the smell exuded by Jack o Lanterns is one of the smells that makes Dimitri vomit. Although he did really like the fireworks, in a kind of over-excited, frightened but also happy kind of way. I may watch a bit of the movie tonight, atleast until I fall asleep on the sofa.
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Bonfires get pretty regulated here in NJ---haven't really seen one! We haven't gotten a pumpkin in awhile; maybe we will next year. (Charlie hasn't been terribly interested in pumpkin-carving so guess who gets to do it.) Hope you had a good weekend!
Funnily enough I nearly mentioned regulations too, when I was younger neighbourhoods would get together to build bonfires, they could get pretty much as big a small house! I really doubt if that is allowed now:-)Now there are organised bonfires with the fire dept on hand.
Quiet weekend - no pumkins involved:-)
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