Bonfire Night

[Dookey]

So it really is a bunch of fools burning tyres. Classy!

I resent that , as a norrie I'm offended , shame on you.

 

[montagne]

You were hit on the head with an aerosol can!

 

[auch]

Ah those were the days. Bonna always meant the last days of the primary school year, my birthdays only a few days away and I don't ever remember it raining on that night.

Good memories..... (wipes one solitary tear from eye...)

 

[Dookey]

You were hit on the head with an aerosol can!

I know but it was either that or get scalded by a tin of beans.

 

[auch]

You were hit on the head with an aerosol can!

Someone I knew got hit with inhaler shrapnel. Wasn't there but he nearly lost his eye.

 

[3pointplay]

As it's approaching on the 23rd of this month , what memories do you have of ''bonnas'' gone by?

Back in the day my mates and i never needed an excuse, It was bonna night every night of the week up in the fields, Be it the Mon, farranferris, Suzis or Tuckers. We could get a fire going with two small sticks and a bit of paper.
When they knocked the Brothers house up in the mon the wood kept us going for weeks.

 

[Narwhal]

I'm still young so I still actually celebrate it, last year was fairly class, this year should be better!

 

[jojo1804]

I'm still young so I still actually celebrate it, last year was fairly class, this year should be better!

Gatt on my friend, gatt on.

I feel like going bushing again for it this year, it's been too long

 

[3pointplay]

Best bang used to be going around lighting other folks bonnas the night before.

 

[volunteer]

The Carrigaline pipe band used to march to St Johns well on St John's Eve. At the well the priest would say the rosary and the crowd follow the pattern around the well (thats the local tradition). I have happy memories of being at the bonna hearing the bagpipe music drift across the valley....happy days indeed.