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Firework night

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:14 / 28.09.03

Anyone coming down to Lewes for the weirdo firework night extravaganza?
Old ladies with red glowing eyes dressed as Vikings and pulling barrels
of burning pitch thru an otherwise ideallyc village center. It is something
a bit scary, but inspiring in the frenzy. Then there is the burning effigy
thingy and assaulting fake bishops with minor explosives. Coach leaving London(brixton)
@ 2pm and returning about 4am.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:24 / 28.09.03

Oh yes.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:45 / 28.09.03

re abstract: no.

cool. i'll definitely be going with crew, so someone let me know what you lot are upto.

you really shouldn't miss thisl, london folk, its truly bizarre...last year there were several burning Bushes...

Rollo Kim, on location

20:56 / 13.10.03

I've only just heard about the legendary "Lewes Setting Fire to Stuff" festivities.

Went into Lewes last weekend, 'for a nice pub lunch'. Mature, cultured, southern, cider-drinking friends were incapable of walking home. Bodies were strewn across the streets. I witnessed, first hand, something called "Morris dancers." I did not see the actual "Morris dancing". It was all a bit 'Wicker Man' really. And that's not a bad thing.

Goodness Gracious Meme

23:00 / 13.10.03

Why Rollo? Why?

If you fancy it, gis a shout...

Where is Lewes?

(East?) Sussex. It has a very good second-hand bookshop (or it did last time I was there, which was, ooh, four years ago? Or possibly five).

bjacques

12:12 / 14.10.03

I could probably do this. Would I have to reserve a place in the coach in advance, or can I just show up with a fistful of pound coins? I'd be coming from Amsterdam.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

14:05 / 14.10.03

Lewes is a wee town about 15 minutes out of central Brighton by train. Very pretty little England village with aforementioned bookshops, castle, cobbles, tiny streets, and stuffed to the gunnels with folk who want to see things buurrrrnnn.

bjacques

12:59 / 16.10.03

Okay, I'm coming to London Tuesday (staying in Stokey with Stoatie, who can't go), want to get to Lewes Wednesday and get the last Eurostar Thursday afternoon. Trains to Lewes go every half hour ( ##:17, ##:47, from Waterloo?) and I can catch a two-hour train back at 11pm. Is this where somebody cackles insanely at the foreigner who's never ridden a British train?

bjacques

13:32 / 03.11.03

If anyone wants to hook up, please SMS me at +31 6 5231 7354. I'll be in London tomorrow evening, take the train Wednesday afternoon (unless coach is cheaper, faster and doesn't hit a giant traffic jam half an hour away from Lewes), then back to sunny Amsterdam Thursday evening.

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:46 / 04.11.03

hey B,
Will text you asap about all this. If you are staying at Stoaties he can
also give you my number. Should be possible to put you on the coach
with the rest of us, I think it costs about 20 one pound coins and thats for
the return tripand admission to the big pope burning. It leaves from London
at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon and returns to London about 4am on Thurs. morning
so should give you plenty of time to work out your going back to Amsterdam.
Please note: there is rumoured difficulty in getting a train home from Lewes
on the Wednesday night, plus you miss all the good parts.
ok, ring me.

angel

10:30 / 04.11.03

I was so hoping to be in the country for this, but a good friend is getting married here shortly and I can't afford the return trip again.

Hope you guys have a brilliant time and please give it a write up so those of us who couldn't get there know what we were missing.

And have a shroom or two for me!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:49 / 04.11.03

Yay! I got the time off work!

Fire is cool.

angel

11:45 / 04.11.03

Have a wonderful time Stotie. I'm pleased to see you are going.

Remember that you can use this time and this energy, and in particular this fire energy, to burn away any negative thoughts or concepts you don't want to carry with you through the coming year. Use some creative visualisation to make the thing you want to be rid of concrete and then "throw" the image into the fire and watch it burn away. I've used this technique a number of times in the past to great success.

Other than that just enjoy the fire. I always find that bonfires make me very very happy. Anyway, have fun! Much love and hugs to you.

Bill Posters

12:46 / 04.11.03

bah, no can do, wch is annoying in itself and also 'cos I don't seem to have seen the Lilylady or the Stoatieboy for ages. Ho hum. U all have fun.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:40 / 06.11.03

Whoah. That was utterly, utterly fucking bonkers. Shitloads of pirates with flaming torches EVERYWHERE. Proper write-up will follow when my head stops hurting. For now, suffice it to say that it was totally awesome.

Mono

12:26 / 06.11.03

truly surprising and kinda mad. it was good to bump into BiP and watch the grim reaper give a little nod to Cortez in front of a long row of burning crosses. my clothes all smell like yummy smoke and my snot is the color of charcoal.

awesome.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:49 / 06.11.03

And BOBA FUCKING FETT!!! How could I forget HIM?

angel

20:16 / 06.11.03

I'm really looking forward to the write up now Stoatie!

Mono - You're still in the country! How fab is that! I hope you will still be there when I get back. I arrive on the 20th and it would be so cool to catch up with you. Things got a little mad before I left for Oz, so it feels like forever since we've met up. Oh and Jules has been asking after you so we'll definately have to meet up for some cheap food or something!!

Lilly, how was the celebration for you?

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

08:28 / 07.11.03

Tiny Boba Fett! Tiny tiny Boba Fett!

That rocked so hard. The pirates, the Victorian policemen brass band, the nuns wielding flaming torches, the 7-year olds wielding flaming torches, the weeny suffragettes, and fire fire fire!

And on a practical note, much easier to get back into Brighton afterwards.

Smoke and tatters of red paper from the bangers everywhere. Ace.

bjacques

11:32 / 07.11.03

Fantastic! It made 4th of July fireworks look positively sick. It was the biggest organized display I'd ever seen (the biggest *dis*organized display can be seen all over Amsterdam after about 10pm on New Year's Eve...).

Besides meeting fellow Barbelites and Barbelettes, my biggest thrill was the episcopal bakeoff by the Cliffe Bonfire Society. Three bishops on a platform tried to preach their Roman babble to a crowd that hurled bangers and anti-Catholic insults for a solid HOUR!! 450 years after Bloody Mary fried some Protestants outside the main tavern and this is what you get. Also, more fireworks and a flaming and exploding skull and crossbones.

It was the most fun I'd ever had with fireworks short of lighting them myself. Any more fun than this and I'd die of pure sensory overload.

I wanted to throw my camera on one of the bonfires so I'd have an excuse to get a digital one.

Tryphena Absent

12:25 / 07.11.03

I'm really really jealous.

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