November

[Seafront Plodder]

...am I starting to get some sort of reputation here?

Anyway, t'was somewhere in that procession last night, and a glorious evening it was too. What these pics can't express is the noise. Army stylee marching bands, New Orleans trad jazz bands, drum based ensembles all inserted between our ranks of smugglers, vikings, soldiers, archbishops and the odd group of nuns. Add the noise of the on-street rookies (bangers) and you may get somewhere close to what a fantastic night of revelry it is.

And that's before we all peel off at around 10pm to our respective fire sites for the arial display and the burning of effigies and enemies of bonfire.

'Elfin' Safety are constantly on our arses as you can imagine, as they are in much of our everyday lives nowadays, but Lewes on the 5th is special and long may it continue.