Guy

On the 5th November 1605 a 35 year old Catholic man from Yorkshire was caught in an undercroft beneath the Houses of Parliament guarding a large store of gunpowder in possession  of a pocket watch and a slow match. He and his thirteen fellow conspirators were plotting to kill King James 1 and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. Amongst the forgotten conspirators led by Robert Catesby were several gentlemen of position and wealth, so why is Guy Fawkes the name that has been remembered for 408 years?
Guy fawkes also known as Guido Fawkes, a name he took up after selling all of his estate and sailing to the continent to fight in the 'Eighty Years War' for Catholic Spain against the Dutch Republic. The highly skilled soldier won favour with the king he tried to assassinate when he withstood days of torture in the Tower of London before he finally gave in and confessed, giving the names of his fellow conspirators. But this wasn't the end, on 31st January 1606, Guy was mounting the steps of the gallows to meet the same fate as all of his friends and fellow conspirators whom he had just witnessed being Hung, drawn and quartered. he decided the mutilation would be too much and leapt from the gallows head first, dying instantly from a broken neck, robbing the crowd of their entertainment and justice.

Effigy's wearing a ceramic Guy Fawkes mask(the earliest example of holiday merchandise profiteering) were burnt on the anniversary by children in celebration of the failed gunpowder plot, a celebration that continues to this day.........

Well, I say this day, it's more like this week or even this month. The effigy burning turned into bonfires which were accompanied by fireworks, which are now set off by brain dead 'North Face Ninjas' rather than children. They usually start going off around local council estates near the end of September and last through until the end of November. it's like living in a war zone where nightly  attacks make dogs go crazy but people just don't care, sure, they'll moan about it down at the paper shop in the morning but during the nightly artillery attack on their estate, the residents remain indoors, barricading themselves in against an unseen evil, unwilling to unlock that door that leads to, basically, what is a couple of troubled kids that are a little out of control. They bolt their doors and pretend it's normal behaviour to be too afraid to confront their neighbourhood kids, the endurers of a Blitz that no one cares about. Today's society are so brainwashed by the media into believing that every teenager is a knife wielding murdering monster without a conscience that people become too scared to just open their door and shout "Hoy" which years ago would of scattered gang fights............. Is this fear justified? ......I'll leave the answer to that until next time.

Enjoy the Fireworks Folks 

and please stay safe