it's totally chucking it down here.. so we will be at home.. with a movie and hot chocolate and churros...as a gesture I will serve ice cream with choc sauce and a mini indoor sparkler to decorate

we'll see what's on at the weekend and what the weather is doing.

thankfully our local display is on sat as it is chucking it down here now too...
but we also have a bonfire party tomorrow and forecast is grim for that

Woohoo!!! Result - have just bumped into a friend who lives at the top of our road and have bludgeoned persuaded her to let us join her at her's for fireworks in the garden!! Her Dad's doing fireworks for her ds's, so we're planning to drink wine coffee in the kitchen while the men do the fireworks. Very safely and at a suitable distance....

Marvellous!

...the bus there is always exciting, full of happy children and their folks, cheeks aglow with excitement and anticipation (and Haribos)

...for some reason the kiddies have always vanished by the time you get the bus back, and it is full of lairy teens with god knows what incendiary devices in their many, many pockets

Ah yes - did I not mention we have to get a bus there and back.

And I started my period today - the stomach ache's kicking in and no loos at mudfest tonight...

GRUMP

YANBU, I am hoping dh will take the dd's and leave me at home with a hot water bottle. It is not raining here, in fact it is lovely and sunny but my back hurts and standing up for 2 hours and having to carry either a 6 year old who has decided yet again that fireworks are too noisy or 4 year old who claims she 'can't see' will nearly kill me. Also, I am terrified of sparklers.

Oh, Dotty, you know you'll enjoy it when you get there!

...especially the bit where you try to get home afterwards. <shudder>

There doesn't seem to be much on tomorrow and bizarrely, dp and I are out on a rare social event-type thing..!

Ho hum. Still raining but I think I'll end up going - grumbling, being stroppy and generally in a Bad Mood...

there's one at the park down the road tonight, but because it's too much for me to wedge into a school night, and displays in Southwark tend to have an undercurrent of nortiness IME, I am lying to telling the dcs there is nothing on tonight...

...we will be going to Blackheath instead at the weekend as tis a bit more genteel

love love love Bonfire Night (well, BN weekend, anyway )

Ours don't get cancelled, it was pouring last year and there were all were in the mud and the cold.

This is our last year and we have been every year since moving to the UK, but. I. don't. want. to!

Will suck it up and go.