Bonfire Night 2008

The most recent event was Guy Faulke's night (for info on this British tradition check out the 4th post under my Archives/November 2006!). As usual, there was a big open party at the Vicarage, with food and fireworks and a huge bonfire behind the garage. (If you page down a little further on that 2006 archive page you'll find some more scrapbook pages of that year's Vicarage Party with the bonfire and the BBQ - it was all very much like that again. And on the middle picture bottom right corner you see a photo with the inscription "Chris Soup" and a woman looking out of a window: that was my position this year!) Yes, I was on the catering team, responsible for dishing out foam cups of soup to the incoming visitors - "Tomato or Veg???"... There were nearly 250 people there this year - which sounds a lot but was down from the last years, owing to the muggy cold weather and threatening rain. They ended up putting on the fireworks before the appointed time, and just as well as no sooner had they finished as it started to rain for good and everybody hurried home, grabbing a piece of cake from the trays on the way out. Real shame - so far all the years we've been in Chertsey they have always been lucky with the Bonfire Night weekends...