Oh yes, Grandmoon.  All the neighbours with the children used to gather at a local bonfire and let off crackers.   They were such joyful gettogethers.....both for the adults and the children.

I love birds moon and will be doing gardens in the new place to  make sure I get lots of them.

Hahaha freshie, the last fire cracker night I recall I was about 14 and had a crush on the boy of the road (I learned some 20 years later he did on me too ) and I collected a huge box of crackers that we could let off in the street with all the other kids in the area.

Came the big night and before even one cracker was let off he dropped a live match in the box by accident and it was all over in a BIG flash... 

Beautiful while it lasted but that was it :_|

Night lovely ladies...........and Richoxx

Beautiful while it lasted but that was it.

The crackers going off, Darkli.....or the flingette?

It was my father's birthday on Cracker Night and he strung the local kids along by telling us that the bonfires and crackers were to celebrate his birthday.

He got away with it for about 15 years because as we grew up and twigged to it, we did not tell the younger ones.

I think I was about 18 before the last of the younger ones outed him.

By that time he was stringing them along with who his brother was.  Brian Henderson was very big on TV, with Bandstand and the News....our name was Henderson and Dad looked a bit like him, probably because they wore the same glasses.  He got away with that one for quite a while too.:O

Hahaha Lyndal, your dad had a good imagination, catching the opportunities presented to him like cracker night... and Brian Henderson... he's be hard to beat :^O

The whole box went up, it was a great display for about 2 minutes and then it was over 😞

morning all♥

Thank God we don't live in New York!

The best tall tale my Nan told was when my cousin and his friend asked her how old she was. 

She told them she was over 200 years old and had been here when Captain Cook landed and she asked the natives not to kill him.

:^O well moon, her heart was in the right place.

I don't think Cook killed any aboriginals, but he was killed by some in Hawaii

Initially relations between the Europeans and the Hawaiians were friendly and peaceful. The genial atmosphere broke down after a series of thefts from the European stores. Tensions came to a head on the night of the 13-14 February, 1779 when the Discovery’s cutter boat was stolen. On the morning of the 14th of February, Cook, Lieutenant Molesworth Phillips and nine marines went ashore and attempted to take hostage Terreeoboo, the Hawaiian King.

This strategy of Cook’s intended to force the Hawaiians to return the cutter. However in the confusion, shots were fired and one of the high-ranking chiefs, Kalimu, was killed. At that point, the crowds on the shore responded in anger. As Cook and the marines returned to their boats, they were attacked on the beach. Cook fired his gun and killed a Hawaiian warrior. In return, he was struck on the head by a club and speared by an iron dagger. Falling into the water, he was not seen alive again.

That's a bit of a cliff hanger isn't it.  Today conspiracy theorists would wonder if he survived and managed to escape to return to England :^O

exciting night last night.:-(

OH had a diabetic hypo...ambos were called and he ended up in Hospital for a few hours.  They called me at 1.30 a.m. to come and pick him up, got back here at 3.10 a.m......so a bit tired today.    Will definitely have a nanny nap this arvo.