Twitter (again)

First there was the ‘who to follow’ feature...

then I had no followers (Twitter fail)...

and then somebody went and tweeted a picture from outer space!

Speaking of pictures from outer space, a team decided to send a paper plane into space as a bit of a pet project – and it ended up costing £8,000. Ouch!

Bonfire night

‘Remember, remember the 5th of November…”

Now THIS is the type of holiday that I do love!!!  

If you don’t know about the history, it’s basically about a man called Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the House of Parliament, but failed. As a result we now celebrate, well the fact that he failed and this signified by the effigy of Guy Fawkes that is traditionally burnt on top of the bonfire. Ok, now that I’ve put it like that, it does sound a little morbid. Essentially we’re celebrating the failure of a terrorist in the older times. Hmmm

But what the hell, it’s a lot of fun! Watching the huge bonfires and colourful fireworks, eating the various associated foods such as toffee apples, bonfire toffee and not forgetting the games that are played e.g. apple bobbing etc.

In other related news, this happened...

Thankfully it didn't actually go ahead on the night, but what a stupid thing to propose in the first place. Organising a strike on what is potentially the busiest night of year for the fire service.  Also the second headlien below also made me laugh...

I mean really. The article suggested that people could potentially blind themselves whilst bobbing for apples as the stalks could damages the cornea. That is akin to saying something along the lines of, 'Don't use your stapler as you may end up stapling your hand' . I mean that is common sense and then there is being ridiculous.

Anyhow, we slightly delayed our bonfire celebrations as I was too tired after driving back from Watford General Hospital on the actual night. But I would like to think I still made up for it by attending displays over the weekend and having our own bonfire party for the sake of my little brother more than anyone else.

Lots of thisturned into this

 

 

It was a very fun weekend.

Halloween

‘Trick or treat? A penny or a sweet?’

It’s not a proper holiday, it’s not even one of the English ones and still everyone makes such a big fuss of it? I’m not bitter, I just find it odd. Also since when did companies start getting into the Halloween mood?

Too scared to open it?! Whatever!

I think Halloween is perfectly summed up by this Oatmeal comic.

I ended up going over to visit family as I had completely forgotten and only remembered when I saw trick or treaters arriving at their door. Which then made me panic, clearly we were not in our house but if no one came to answer the door, how likely would it be that we would get egged? Very likely! Crap!

Thankfully we came to find we had been saved, others were not so lucky and that’s the thing that annoys me. Those people that egging people’s house etc are not the young kids who have made an effort with their cute little costumes and are accompanied by responsible adults. The ‘eggers’ are usually moody teenagers out to cause mischief and mayhem, usually to the detriment of others.

Anyhow I spent the rest of the night, watching the variety of horror movies that were being shown on TV that night. Happy Halloween everyone :)

P.S. As an aside, another Oatmeal comic – should science be taught this way? Well, you would definitely remember it, lol.