November already … how on earth did that happen? This year has seriously flown by at a real rate of knots.
It’s time for the first of Astrid’s challenges for us for November and we are looking for inspiration from the word … bonfire π₯
Now years ago, after I’d first left home I lived in a flat close to our local Castle Grounds and every bonfire night we wandered across to have a warm by the fire and watch the fireworks … before heading home for jacket potatoes that had been cooking whilst we were out.
It’s been a good few years since there has been a bonfire … a casualty of Health and Safety I guess, but the fireworks have got dramatically bigger and better over the years. It’s been a few years since we’ve been … it has just got to be such a big and busy event that it’s no longer really our thing.
For a while we had our own garden firework gathering for friends and family … but an incident with the accidental ignition of a full box of fireworks in our kitchen eventually put paid to that … don’t worry there were no injuries or damage caused … though the incident did involve a visit from the local fire service … called by a neighbour who wondered what on earth was going on. Nothing to do with me I hasten to add … I was at work at the time.
So … when I saw the theme bonfire I didn’t think I would be able to find any photos at all … but I did come across these few … it’s not really a bonfire, it’s a brazier …
… in the gazebo in the garden at The Inn on the Lake in Glenridding …
We got married here in 2009 … and we had fireworks. For a few years after we got married we returned to stay there for the New Year. They always lit the brazier later on and you could follow the candlelit pathway down to the gazebo for mulled wine and toasted marshmallows … which we did … even though it was flippin’ freezing …
So not much by way of bonfires but here are a couple of the fireworks we had on the evening of our wedding …
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I like the look of the brazier. For ages now I've thought about buying a fire pit but I know I won't as we would not sit outside! But I can still look at lovely photos of them. The gazebo looks lovely too.
ReplyDeleteI bought Martin a fire pit for his birthday this year and we have lit it once as we had an outdoor get together and the weather wasn’t so good and we were still only really meeting outside. It was lovely but everything stank of smoke for days πππ
DeleteHmmm, stank of smoke; another reason for me not to get one!
DeleteYes … I will only be burning those Swedish fire logs from now π
DeleteWhat a romantic place to have a wedding. The gazebo is so pretty and that brazier picture is lovely. I love your story of the fireworks display in the kitchen!! That smoke smell is terrible to get rid of, we nearly always entertained outside in warmer Southern Africa, usually a braai (bar-b-que) and the 'cooks' clothes always needed to go straight to the wash. π
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely place to get married. Our heating engineer was at the house with Martin during the ‘firework incident’ … he rates it as one of his best work days ever … it was a fair old while ago but still comes up in conversation every time we see him. We had two fabric gazebos up when we lit the fire pit … they had to stay up for a good two or three days for the smell of the smoke to recede … but I bet when we get them out next year they will still smell smoky π
DeleteWe used to have a lovely little chimenea and as long as we sited it to keep the breeze out of the open mouth we could be reasonably smoke 'free'- not guaranteed but it was easier to manipulate than a fire pit or a brazier - lovely photos especially of the lit up gazebo x
ReplyDeleteThank you Kate … the gazebo been a new addition since we got married … it certainly is pretty π
DeleteHow lovely to get married somewhere as beautiful as that. I like the brazier & we've thought about a fire pit or maybe chiminea for our "to-be" outdoor makeover, but nothing has eventuated yet. Definitely no fireworks or bonfires here in Oz due to bans on those sort of things and only allowed for very official occasions such as New Year's Eve and run by local authorities. Thanks for sharing, take care & hugs.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is a lovely spot … right on the edge of the lake. There is lots of pressure over here for fireworks to be banned for use by the general public, which will be a real shame … though I can understand it as some people just go a bit crazy with them π
DeleteOh wow, that looks so magical! I think you teased us with telling us about your wedding but with no photos! I think one of my words in the future will have to be gazebo and/or wedding.
ReplyDeleteHaha … they didn’t have the gazebo when we got married but it was still a beautiful spot. Wedding would be a good one for the future π
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