Sunday, November 05, 2006
The Virtual Bonfire
Now I have a problem with November 5th. I'm not particular religious, if at all, but I'd rather have minime running round dressed as a Ghostie that getting involved with the sectarian claptrap that is Bonfire Night. Hypocritcally, I do enjoy a good bonfire and display when I get there...
Now some rugby club down in Devon applied for a licence for a public display this year. The council said that due to H&FS requirements, they would have to hire a multitude of properly certified stewards, hire two fire marshalls, keep an exclusion zone around the bonfire that was so immense no-one could feel it's heat and fill in copious amounts of paper work. So much paper-work indeed, that the rugger-buggers came up with a plan that was so cunning, it could have been thought up by a wiley fox....
They went round a mates home, had a fire there, filmed it then projected it onto a big ole screen on the night and still managed to have the fireworks. No H&FS crap or forms then...beggars believe it really does.
Now some rugby club down in Devon applied for a licence for a public display this year. The council said that due to H&FS requirements, they would have to hire a multitude of properly certified stewards, hire two fire marshalls, keep an exclusion zone around the bonfire that was so immense no-one could feel it's heat and fill in copious amounts of paper work. So much paper-work indeed, that the rugger-buggers came up with a plan that was so cunning, it could have been thought up by a wiley fox....
They went round a mates home, had a fire there, filmed it then projected it onto a big ole screen on the night and still managed to have the fireworks. No H&FS crap or forms then...beggars believe it really does.
