Looking forward to the weekend although we will miss some of our regulars this year, DJ and Al amongst them. 10 years ago this weekend was our first weekend in the hotel and it was Gay Pride weekend. We were full, not for gay Pride but for a maths convention!! A maths professor from UC Santa Barbara had booked the entire place for himself and students at a bargain rate. Apparently an annual event. Boy, was he pissed off when we told him he couldn't book for the next year!!
10 years ago we had our friend Todd staying with us, and also our friends Bill and Dave. Sadly Todd passed last year and we heard from Dave that Bill died this last week. :(
Also, today in the United Kingdom is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Day ... not an offical holiday but one where people light fires and set off fireworks in celebration of the capture of Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. An effigy of him is often burnt on fires but nowadays it is often an unpopular politian. Maggie Thatcher was one of the most popular figures burned and long shall it remain so!!! Guy (Guido) Fawkes jumped from the scafolding and broke his neck before the hang man got is hands on him and thus he escaped the painful hanging, drawing and quartering which was so popular in those days. What? No flogging?
Here's a silly little ditty we used to sing in the school playground on November 5th ......
Build a bonfire, build a bonfire,
Put the teachers on the top.
Put the prefects in the middle
And burn the bloody lot!!!!!
(Witty, eh?).
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