It's here. November 5th. Bonfire Night. Guy Fawkes Night.
Fog, mingled with lingering firework smoke. Burnt copper-coloured trees lit up through gunpowder haze. Toasted marshmallows, caramelising on the bonfire. And the stuffed guy on top, trussed up in the headmaster’s favourite suit jacket.
School bonfires are where the pumpkin-carving competition is judged, mittens are lost, and toffee apples count as one of your 5-a-day. The firework displays grow more and more magnificent every year, till one day they will surely rival Sydney Harbour Bridge's.
They are a far cry from my back garden when I was five. Shivering on the back step as Dad intermittently set off damp rockets. One brief Catherine wheel. Warming ourselves with the excitement of a 10 second sparkler. And yet we loved it.
Put the ‘Krakatoa Fountain’ from my childhood on the school field though, and people would boo, or cry, or both. Put my school or even the Worcester Warriors’ display in my back garden, and it would be an ASBO for my parents and a heart attack for the squirrel.
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Maybe just give the headmaster his jacket back.
