Article: All is quiet...(News)

REMEMBER, remember the fifth of November... it seems quiet this Guy Fawkes. The restrictions on fireworks must be having an effect. There was a time when, as Diwali ran into Guy Fawkes, the part of Durban where I live was like the Somme or Passchendal. There are good arguments against celebrating Guy Fawkes. What relevance does an obscure gunpowder plot in London hundreds of years ago have for us out here today? Animals get terrified by the fireworks.

Yet what fun it was to go about lifting garden gates and putting firecrackers in people's postboxes. We've lost something.

Hooligans of the world, unite!

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