Remember, remember, the fifth of November...

Most of you non-British forum readers might not know what on earth I'm going on about, so I'll tell you.

On the fifth of November, we celebrate Guy Fawkes' (or maybe Fawke's) Night, or Bonfire Night to save time worrying about spelling. It's a wonderful event, with fireworks and toffee apples and candyfloss and a huge fire. And burning people at the stake.

On the fifth of November, *mumble*teen-hundred and *cough*, a group of people tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Guy was one of them, and was somewhat unfortunately caught in the act and executed. Since then, we have celebrated it by burning him in effigy. Hence the huge fire and explosion-based tomfoolery.

Now, that's all well and good, right? Well, most Brits probably haven't given it much thought. But we will be celebrating a failed terrorist attack on one of our national monuments. It will be interesting to see how firework sales are affected this year.

Matthew