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New Day Cafe: Nature and Nonsense and Guy Fawkes! [1]

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Date: 2023-11-05

Happy Sunday, Newdists! Grab a cuppa and a nosh and join us for some whatevering.

I’m a rebel, me!!

THIS is why humanity is in danger of extinction!

x The concrete stairs are out of order AGAIN. 😡 pic.twitter.com/H6Hd9wEBW4 — Brad (@BraddrofliT) November 4, 2023

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November…

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent

To blow up the King and the Parliament

Three score barrels of powder below

Poor old England to overthrow

By God's providence he was catch'd

With a dark lantern and burning match

Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring

Holler boys, holler boys

God save the King!

Guy Fawkes Day in Britain is celebrated by burning effigies of Guy Fawkes, and it has traditionally been common for children to ask for ''a penny for the Old Guy'' to pay for fireworks. The Guy Fawkes effigies are essentially scarecrows, which is a direct parallel with the hollow men of the poem.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby

The plotters leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords; Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder that they stockpiled there. The authorities were prompted by an anonymous letter to search Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and they found Fawkes guarding the explosives.

Makes us sound almost reticent, doesn’t it?

we plots!!

Don’t have a Flaco sighting (yet) but this is almost as good…

x 😂😂😂Young Red-tailed Hawks can be absolutely hilarious. This one was jumping up and down in Central Park's Compost Heap this morning trying to scare up some breakfast. He did capture and decimate a rag! ❤️❤️❤️ #hawk #CentralPark #birdcpp pic.twitter.com/ADl7JG35g9 — Above_96th (@Above96th) November 4, 2023

In case you missed it, Jamie Raskin is my hero….

x Jamie Raskin absolutely rocks. (That's his handwriting.) https://t.co/9X2gmSYZEr — Lee in Iowa 🌻🟧 (@Lee_in_Iowa) November 3, 2023

And then I went for a bit of a rummage for some of Mother Nature’s life affirming beauty…..

It’s still a wonderful world!

What’s on your mind this morning?

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