Fireworks

As I write, fireworks are going off all over town. There's a fireworks display at Christchurch Park and lots of fireworks have been sold to individuals and they're going off in neighbourhoods all over town right now.

Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night. In 1605 he was caught in the cellars of Parliament with casks of gunpowder. His punishment was the worst at the time: to be drawn and quartered, to send a message that treason was not to be tolerated.

Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...