nipper Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Bonfire night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxie Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 They had Bonfire Night in Douglas this evening as it was the lowest tide near to 5th November and the fireworks and bonfire were on the beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Remember Remember the 10th of November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Yeah Minxie it was something to do with the tides not being right on Monday. Remember when we were allowed to have bonfires on the beach? They nannied all that away and now you can have bonfire night, but, health and safety will not allow a bonfire and although there will be a nice pretty fire work display, it will not be happening until the 10th November...obscure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxie Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 There was actually a bonfire - quite a good big one on the beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Remember Remember the 10th of November. As long as the bonfire is within the designated bonfire period it's O.K! Don't you just love progress? P.s . I've heard on the grapevine in Peel ,that Christmas Day in Douglas this year will be on January the 1st! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 oh I didnt know there was a bonfire missed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Build a bonfire,build a bonfire put the wardens on the top ! Put the corpy in the middle! Cause they've lost ,the fucking plot ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Bleat! I took the kids down, had a great time, fireworks were ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 That wasn't a bonfire - that was a Health and Safety Controlled Combustion Display Fireworks were brilliant - hastily edited 4 minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 ]hastily edited 4 minute video version here Have you got one of your neighbour taking a shower? (i bet you have, lol.....; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 ]hastily edited 4 minute video version here Have you got one of your neighbour taking a shower? (i bet you have, lol.....; ) and in English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted November 10, 2007 Author Share Posted November 10, 2007 I was in a bah humbug mood before and even though I could have watched the display from the comfort of my hovel, I just shut the curtains and wus grumpy for 1/2 an hour. Pretending I had a dog that was shitting itself every couple of seconds as the bangs went off. I must say though, when I drove past later, there was quite a nice atmosphere down on the promenade, like what Slim was saying, but I reckon it was nothing compared to when I was a real nipper. Bonfire night was far better fun when you could spend the past coupla months scrounging anything that would burn and taking it to your area's bonfire along the beach, making a den in it, trying to outdo the next bonfire along the beach and all that. Bonfire gangs were ace and our gang was the best. On the night (the real night that is) you did your own thing as far as entertainment was concerned. This was in the days before they invented barbecues and so you could use the bonfire for cooking some food and all that - a real treat. In all those years I never knew of anyone having an accident. Not just fireworks but the whole bonfire collecting thing - we even rolled down the cliffs in herring barrels. But that was in the days when there was herrings. It was also in the days before Health & Safety was invented too. Happy Bonfire Night? My Arse Struck out because that tone and sentiment was used very recently in the title of this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 My best "Bommie Night" was in my early teens when we blagged all of the used bus tyres from the old York Road depot for our bonfire One of us had access to a van so we managed to get tons of other flammable stuff, making our fire the biggest we had ever built My Mum made "Parkin" a kind of treacle cake and my dad got hold of a load of out of date distress rockets and flares from his mate in the SPCo. We had a bonfire so fierce no-one could go within 100 yards and the Merchant Navy spec fireworks put the crappy Standard ones in the shade Nobody died or was even seriously injured and the area round the bonfire looked like Ground Zero for about twenty years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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