and a lovely party...me & A (temporary resident of this house) made it over to victoria park for the fire works... including the burning of a massive model of the houses of parliament...
we got there about 15 minutes after it was supposed to start and we got there at exactly the right time... a big image of guy bursting into flames as we walked up...
the burning of the houses of parliament was just great... a remake of the 1981 welfare state version i believe... stange how watching the seat of our nations government burn to the ground answered a deep seated need in me...
fireworks hidden in the structure - for example in big ben - went off when the flames reached them, burning the wood around them really quickly...
guy himself appeared, a massive puppet, he walked passed the crowd and around the houses of parliament ending up on top, he was engulfed by flames and utterly destroyed in minutes...
i video'd quite a few bits, including guy's burning and also big ben catching alight and eventually toppling... but when the fireworks really got going, after big ben had come down, the rest of parliament burning away, i put aside the camera and just enjoyed the complete thrill of the fireworks, i so love being in a crowd and oohing and aahing at fireworks, near the end of it they let loose with so much all at once it was truly great...
i've enjoyed quite a few different november 5th nights but this one was the best, largely because of the burning of parliament... (to the talking heads tune - burning down the house)...
we couldn't find spski who'd come down separately, neither did we set eyes on W floopy who was there with Th, they being G's mum & dad, but i spoke with floopy, hope to catch him soon...
we did however see the lovely P whose house we went back to for a bit of a shindig, met her flatmate L which was cool, nice chats about meeting strangers... funnily enough didn't talk with P herself too long, hope to rectify that some day soon... and another friend of P's J, named by her mum after the lawrence durrell book that is the first of the alexandria quartet... she said that she would reread J, and go on to read the rest of the quartet for the first time, pleasing, i hope she does...
eventually me & A wended our way home, got tea and biscuits and watched the 9th gate
which was good, but not that good, too slow to do justice to the great arturo perez- reverte book it's based on... but a good attempt...and now i'm sleepy...
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