Guy Fawkes/Cracker Night!

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I appreciate the bonfire probably scares those in Aus, but over here... it's grand! Bonfire & fireworks ahead of Guy Fawkes Night.

 

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I appreciate the bonfire probably scares those in Aus, but over here... it's grand! Bonfire & fireworks ahead of Guy Fawkes Night.

 

[serfty]

I appreciate the bonfire probably scares those in Aus, but over here... it's grand! Bonfire & fireworks ahead of Guy Fawkes Night....

So, have you obtained some for evening backyear release?

 

[drron]

I still miss cracker night.

 

[Steady]

I still miss cracker night.

Ditto

Maybe an AFF event to Darwin on Northern Territory Day would address this

 

[JohnM]

I still miss cracker night.

What, sewing up blown-apart fingers from kids who were a bit slow heaving the penny-bomb over the neighbour's fence and bandaging burnt feet of the kids who walked bare-foot across a former bonfire?

Aaahhh, but I agree, those were the days! How we looked forward to it and with my birthday just one week prior, my dear granny used to load me up with a good supply of explosives! - sent through the mail .

 

[Pushka]

I still miss cracker night.

Was thinking the same. It’s MrP’s birthday on 6th and he always regarded GFN as being the best prelude.

What, sewing up blown-apart fingers from kids who were a bit slow heaving the penny-bomb over the neighbour's fence and bandaging burnt feet of the kids who walked bare-foot across a former bonfire?

Aaahhh, but I agree, those were the days! How we looked forward to it and with my birthday just one week prior, my dear granny used to load me up with a good supply of explosives! - sent through the mail .

So if this isn’t an issue in UK why did we get it so wrong.

 

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So, have you obtained some for evening backyear release?

I do indeed! Shop around the corner from us sells them year round anyway.

I still miss cracker night.

It's fun, isn't it! It's more like cracker month here...

 

[JohnM]

So if this isn’t an issue in UK why did we get it so wrong.

Perhaps because it was ad-hoc, small-scale and much-repeated? I have recollections of several bonfires just in our street and kids running around checking out who was lucky enough to afford a 5-penny bomb or two (they were BIG! - visions of a stick of gelignite! ). Maybe in Britain it's always been larger, community-sponsored events? And probably pom kids always wore shoes which was much less common in 1950s Australia.

 

[drron]

Perhaps because it was ad-hoc, small-scale and much-repeated? I have recollections of several bonfires just in our street and kids running around checking out who was lucky enough to afford a 5-penny bomb or two (they were BIG! - visions of a stick of gelignite! ). Maybe in Britain it's always been larger, community-sponsored events? And probably pom kids always wore shoes which was much less common in 1950s Australia.

Well in our neck of the woods in the 50s,suburban Sydney,it was a community affair.A very large bonfire was built in the days before by the local community and on the night it was the only one in the neighbourhood.
But then you must be talking late 50s as we had tuppenny bungers.

 

[Major]

Well in our neck of the woods in the 50s,suburban Sydney,it was a community affair.A very large bonfire was built in the days before by the local community and on the night it was the only one in the neighbourhood.
But then you must be talking late 50s as we had tuppenny bungers.

Which were used to great affect in the odd letterbox

 

[OATEK]

Well in our neck of the woods in the 50s,suburban Sydney,it was a community affair.A very large bonfire was built in the days before by the local community and on the night it was the only one in the neighbourhood.
But then you must be talking late 50s as we had tuppenny bungers.

"Tuppenny bungers" were something when placed in a length of steel pipe - we left the letter boxes alone. We had a bonfire in the middle of the road in a dead end street, and it was a great community event.

I blamed one of my brothers for contributing to the ban, when he dropped a bunger in his shoe box of crackers and nearly blew himself up!

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Which were used to great affect in the odd letterbox

Yes, ours regularly got blown up by a bunger !! Me being the baby of the family I was only allowed sparklers

 

[JohnM]

I was only allowed sparklers

An attachment that became permanent, I suggest .

 

[RB]

Which were used to great affect in the odd letterbox

Demons were the real deal I think-weren't they the ones that were bigger than bungers?

 

[tgh]

late 50s as we had tuppenny bungers

They were PENNY bungers when I was buying them ..

 

[zenyattamondatta]

late 50s as we had tuppenny bungers

They were PENNY bungers when I was buying them ..

Shop Small promotion?

 

[OATEK]

late 50s as we had tuppenny bungers

They were PENNY bungers when I was buying them ..

We had both, together with tom thumbs and other smaller explosives. Along with catherine wheels, skyrockets etc.

 

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So Pushka the local Tassie weathermen must have done their training in SA.Sundays paper when I got to LST had them saying November would be really dry and hot.So it hasn't stopped raining and they predict it will continue until the weekend.Plus the temp hasn't gone above 16 yet though they are still predicting 19 by the end of the day.

Even London is nicer than that at the moment, and we're in the back end of autumn (unusual, I know!)

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I am hoping for some lovely English weather in May next year !!