Bonfire night

[ladyramkin2000]

Sorry to nitpick, but Guy Fawkes wasn't executed by burning, but by 
hanging, followed by drawing and quartering, the usual sentence for a 
traitor.  Being an ex-soldier, he had the sense to jump from the 
scaffold, thus breaking his neck and enabling him to die quickly. The 
one place where Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawkes night as it is sometimes 
known) is not celebrated, is at Guy's old school in York, wherethey 
prefer not to dishonour the memory of an old boy.  Personally, I 
think it is time we did away with the nonsense.  The hospitals are 
invariably filled with victims of mis-handled fireworks and people 
who have mis-judged the distance of the bonfires.  I just say a 
prayer for Guy Fawkes, a mis-guided but incredibly brave man, who 
submitted to torture for days, rather than betray his friends.

Sylvia