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Thak you Pete.
I didn't even know that there was a Canada day, let alone that it was
celebrated with fireworks and dancing. I bet it's not as much fun as
carneval !
I fell really old when I remember that, before the red maple leaf,Canada
had a different flag. I also remember when the Welsh flag was the cross of
St David, a white '+' on a blue background not a red dragon on a red and
green background. TV programmes never mention that it is part of the Union
Jack, if you look carefully.
At least canada never adopted something with blue,white and red stripes.
Perhaps the Quebecoise are going to agitate for that if they get
independence. As for Guy Fawkes night, it is over 10 years since kids
stopped knocking on doors to scrounge money for fireworks to later put
through your letterbox. They had just started scrounging for money with
which to celebrate Hallowe'en, recntly borrowed from the Americans.
Thanks to the gyneocracy spreading rumours on TV that all men were
paederasts or 'paedophiles' as they prefer to call it now, all scrounging,
including carol singers disappeared quite suddenly. A great relief to most
of us 'oldies'.
Now, the doting parents have to buy their own fireworks for the little
darlings which, along with a huge price hike means that they annoy us for
a far shorter time on November the 5th. They also have to buy plastic
pumpkins and 'candy' too. A triumph of marketing for someone for, what has
never been a British holiday.
Tomorrow, the 4th of July, will only be noticed in the nearest cities like
Manchester, 35 miles away and Liverpool,60 miles (100 km) away, each with
a US embassy.
When I was a child, all boys knew how to make gunpowder and even higher
explosives so, being in a remote area as you know from our communications,
we knew how to make really big bangs, even Molotov cocktails which are NOT
the same as simple petrol bombs. Probably a legacy of WW II and all the
handbooks which were floating around.
I suspect that, unlike when I was at school, kids are not taught enough
chemistry to make explosives, and a good thing too. I hate to think what
it would be like if they knew how to make Nitrogen Iodide.
Like Newfoundland, I suspect that English kids probably don't know why
they celebrate Guy Fawkes and, they too, call it bonfire night.
The sale of fireworks has widened to include New Year, which probably
results in more sales especially in Scotland and then, the Chinese have
always had special dispensation to let off firewoks on Feb 15th, the
Chinese New Year, Gung Hey Fat Choy ! We never hear them around here so,
perhaps, all our local Chinese head for Manchester with quite a big
Chinese population.
Take care, give my love to Maria and a belated happy Canada Day, now I
know the date.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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