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My Bonfire Night Blog - Lewes Bonfire Celebrations

July 30, 2011 at 21:42 by v

Welcome to my very own Lewes Bonfire Night Blog on my rebuilt website, many of you will recognize my style, content etc from my old bonfire night site. This site and my bonfire night blog took ten months of planning and motivation before I decided to take the plunge under increasing pressure from my son, It took a further eight weeks for all the main background stuff to code and main content to be added but I think it has been well worth all the rookies being thrown out of the pram!

Even though my Lewes Bonfire Celebrations site and bonfire night blog is up and running, I am still on the look out for more additions and I am hoping that my bonfire night blog will get used, by sensible articles or comments being added, but any blog, comment or article etc that I feel that is defamatory, irrelevant, slanderous or spam will never ever see daylight in my Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations, Website/Blog.

Due to impotent cretins and starved cougars, I have had to disable all comments on all posts except this bonfire night blog, which will be a breeze to keep an eye on. So if you have an article, observation or comment to make, please post it here.

“A Stranger Is A Friend You Are Waiting To Meet”

The new bonfire night season will soon be well under way for many by the time you read this, and a very interesting one it will be as well. Many a Bonfire Society having had a good bonfire night last year celebrating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, and there were a couple of new kids on the Sussex Bonfire block last year, “Shoreham and Seaford” There were a lot of events last year marking Guy Fawkes ill fated plan and good on him to, because what else would we be doing if the plan had never been conceived.

See my Bonfire Event Date Page for a list, or the Calendar of Bonfire dates and Events, if you fancy warming up for the big one !

31/10/ 11 . . Well what can I say ? . . The big build up is here, anticipation, trepidation, gossip, last minute adjustments to the bonfire costume, buying in your flares, rookies and Chinese crackers, so unless you are involved you will never understand. Liken it to your last day at school before Christmas and the build up to Christmas Eve, its the same for a bonfire boy or belle this week, looking forward to the build up to the Lewes Badge Night and beyond.

Bonfire Night Dates Bonfire Calendar

The above video describes the feeling for me and my wife and many others in Lewes on the 4th and 5th of November, without the anniversaries, birthdays, celebrations, freedom, song, dance and remembrance, Life Would Be Null.

First Line=Italian, Second Line=English Translation. At the bottom is my Lewes Bonfire variation as near as I can damn get it! . You will need to listen to it a few times and follow my version to feel what I feel.

Libiamo Ne’lieti Calici (Brindisi) . . “Drinking Song : From La Traviata : The Fallen Woman” Or “The Lewes Bonfire”

Libiamo, libiamo ne’lieti calic, che la bellezza infiora,
Let’s drink, let’s drink from this merry chalice, that beauty so truly enhances,

E la fuggevol ora s’inebrii a voluttà.
And the brief moment will be happily inebriated with voluptuousness.

Libiam ne’dolci fremiti che suscita l’amore,
Let’s drink for the ecstatic feeling that love arouses,

poiché quell’ochio al core onnipotente va.
because this eye aims straight to the almighty heart.

Libiamo, amore, amor fra i calici più caldi baci avrà.
Let’s drink, my love, and the love among the chalices will make the kisses hotter.

Ah! Libiam, amor, fra’ calici più caldi baci avrà.
The chalices will make the kisses hotter.

Tra voi tra voi saprò dividere il tempo mio giocondo.
With you all, I can share my happiest times.

Tutto è follia, follia nel mondo ciò che non è piacer.
Everything in life which is not pleasure is foolish.

Godiam, fugace e rapido e’il gaudio dell’amore e’un fior che nasce e muore ne più si può goder.
Let’s enjoy ourselves for the delight of love is fleeting and quick, It’s like a flower that blooms and dies and we can no longer enjoy it.

Godiamo, c’invita, c’invita un fervido accento lusinghier!
So enjoy; A keen and flattering voice invites us!

Godiamo, la tazza, la tazza e il cantico la notte abbella e il riso, in questo paradiso ne scopra il nuovo dì.
Be happy; The wine and singing beautify both the night and the laughter, Let the new day find us in this paradise.

La vita è nel tripudio,
Life means celebration,

Quando non s’ami ancora,
Only if one hasn’t known love,

Nol dite a chi l’ignora,
Don’t tell someone who doesn’t know,

E’il mio destin così…
But this is my fate…

Godiamo, la tazza, la tazza e il cantico, la notte abbella e il riso, in questo paradiso ne scopra il nuovo dì.
Be happy; The wine and singing, beautify both the night and the laughter, Let the new day find us in this paradise.

THE LEWES BONFIRE (Brindisi)

Oh, Please – oh please drink from my clear joyfull pint glass,
so resplendent with all its magical beauty.
Oh, please – just drink to the spirit of pure bonfire,
which will enchant our fleeting moment.

Oh, please – just drink to the thrilling sweetness,
brought to us by our remembrance.
For always deep in my heart – I will irresistibly,
be pierced to the Brave Lewes Martyrs.

Oh, Please – that drink of a pint of Harveys,
shall always warm the kisses of my true love.
I shall divide my heart-with all my gaiety-
and my love among you all.

That everything in our short life – is but a folly -
except for the grand ole lewes bonfire.
Let us be joyful, for love is – but – a
fleeting and a much short-lived joy.

A firework which blossoms and fades,
Whose beauty is soon lost forever.
Be joyful, from a caressing voice
will invite us warmly to the joy.

Ah! – be carefree-for the beer and song,
with laughter, will embellish the night.
This new day thats abreaking, will find us still
in this happy paradise.

But life, is only a pleasure
for those – who know how to love,
Speak not of love to one, who knows not what it is,
Such as is my destiny – to always love the bonfire.

Be carefree, for the beer and song,
With laughter, will embellish this bonfire night.
The new day, abreaking, will find us still -
Forever Remembering The Fallen.

Chorus

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I hate to say it, but 2012 already has been a shite year all round for the common man, we are getting squeezed from every angle, and preached a load of crap, is it any wonder we had riots in the Summer of 2011, those at the top should practise what they preach during their stupid austerity measures, if I went bust in 1976 as the UK did, I would be punished for running a business at a loss.

How about all MPs taking at least a 25% pay cut on their nett take home pay for starters, 100% cut on all expenses apart from staff, office, travel and clothing. Also this country is becoming more corrupt than Sicily and its Mafia (Jobs And Cash For The Boys And All That) Its the media and the police I`m looking at here!

So quite a few interesting events or anniversaries already this year worthy of a possible tableux, setpiece or effigy, for example, The Syrian Crisis, Francesco Schettino (Captain of the Costa Concordia) , The Olympics, The Diamond Jubilee, Antony Worrall Thompson (Shoplifting Chef) , Breast Implants, Charles Dickens, The Falklands, The United States Presidential Election Circus, The Coryton Refinery, The Brighton Windmill Project, The Brighton i360 Tower Project, The 100th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The Titanic, The 100th Anniversary Of The Royal Air Force (Was The Royal Flying Corps)

The 40th Anniversary of the last man to walk on the Moon (Apollo 17), The 100th Anniversary Of Captain Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.

So come along if you wish but remember “Volenti Non Fit Injuria”

See You At The Bonfires.

Lest We Forget 11/11/11/11 Poppy