Nov 5 is Guy Fawkes Night and the British celebrate the occasion by letting off fireworks in their backyards. The fireworks had already started a week earlier, though it was sporadic and far in between. The fireworks really sounded like rifles, tracers and mortars, and my initial thoughts were that the soldiers at the nearby army camp were practising live firing. It reminded me of the days at NTU where the campus was situated next to the SAFTI live firing area, but I thought that it was strange that the residents of York would allow a live firing area so near their residential area.
That is until someone told me about the Guy Fawkes night. Even though there were no official fireworks display, almost everyone take this opportunity to play with some fireworks. So you can imagine the noise on Nov 5 evening, the whole place sounded like a battalion live firing exercise was going on nearby.
As it turns out, Guy Fawkes is from York, and here is a description from the university's website on the origin of Guy Fawkes Night. Here is Wikipedia's entry, if the first link doesn't work. Will the British be celebrating a Osama Night come 29 June 2407, I wonder?
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