Six saintly shrouded men move across the lawn slowly. They are dragging pallets across to the Bonfire field, as we prepare for yet another defiant autumnal fire before we really start.
In Leicester, Derby and Wellingborough they prepare for the Great Day as the Protestant feast of St Guy Fawkes' Day (when we remember that St Guy was lucky enough to avoid being quartered alive when he died in the "hanging" part of his execution) co-incides with Diwali. There's gonna be a lot of gunpowder in the air in the East Midlands tonight.
That's why it's raining then.
ReplyDeleteAnd there'll fog tomorrow. Especially in NW Leicestershire.
Thistles!
My contacts tell me that's about right.
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