The view from here

My favourite photograph from the night, not easy on a digital camera with a small 7 year old insisting she needs the toilet NOW...having spent 20 mins trying to light sparklers in gusty winds.

And so we joined 80,000 other people on a wet and windy night to celebrate once more the historical 'near miss' that is Bonfire Night.

Had this happened today, we would have had at least two major enquiry's, major questions would have been raised about security and all Catholics would now be interred without trial on some distanced acquiesced island far far away.