Remember, Remember the 5th of November

Our weekend started with Scarlett's first class assembly on Friday morning. 2D told the story (hilariously) of Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot before reading poems they had written about bonfire night. A group of us parents sat at the back chuckling away. Scarlett played one of the guards who catch the evil Fawkes at his game. 

On Saturday after some general lolling about with the papers, we went to the woods for a lovely walk in truly Autumnal scenery. It's a smashing time of year here at the moment and I'm really trying to get us out into it as much as possible before the colder more inhospitable weather comes with Winter and we are more housebound. Only a few metres nto the woods, Flo slipped and fell in a huge section of thick slippery mud, which caused mirth for us onlookers and tears from Flo because "I didn't want to be dirty". Fair enough. 

 On Saturday evening, after an early roast chicken dinner, we drove to nearby Winchelsea to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. There was a lot of choice locally when it came to bonfires but we chose this one because it's meant to be small and family friendly. Larger celebrations, like the one in Lewes which includes five separate fires and calls for the windows of the High Street to be bordered up against drunken revellers, were not for us. In Winchelsea, a group of about 100 people gathered by the village well at 7pm to see the local dramatic players act out a funny version of the gunpowder plot, not dismilar to the one performed by Scarlett's class. With Guy Fawkes captured, he was loaded onto a cart that led a procession of booing onlookers through the streets to a field where he was tossed onto the huge bonfire stack and set alight. Once he was well ablaze, a really good fireworks display began that had us oohing and ahhing. It was a super night and we were back home in time for X Factor.

 

Talking of fires, tomorrow morning the scafolding goes up on the front of our house so that next week our new chimney liner and wood-burning stove can be fitted. Only then can the really cold weather descend.