Ring of fire

‘This year, I think I’ll have a bonfire at my house for fireworks night’ said the Wee Man’s Grandma. ‘The Wee Man will really enjoy it. It’ll be much nicer than a big display.’

Fast forward to today…

‘Noooooo. Don’t want it!’ screamed the Wee Man in terror, refusing to pass the boundary of the French Doors and venture into the garden. He did not want a sparkler. He didn’t like the fire, and he did like the fireworks, but only from the safety of behind the glass (meaning he couldn’t see them exloding in the sky). Its probably a good thing that he didn’t witness the ceremonial burning of the guy, as I can imagine he would find a person being flung on to the fire whilst we all stood round and cheered just a little bit scary.

This may all have something to do with the Fire Station open day I perhaps ill-advisedly took him to in August. ‘…and this is what happens to a chip fan fire when you put a cup of water on it’ advised the fireman, turning a small fire into a raging inferno of a fireball, right before the Wee Man’s eyes. INSTANT screaming and clinging to me in a panic. Even I took a hurried step back at the searing heat emanating from the demonstration.

He hasn’t entered the kitchen since, any time I have the oven on.

Bubby D on the other hand is seemingly unfazed by the fire, random burst of light and crackly-popping-banging noises going on all around her. In fact, she looks positively delighted as her head bobs up and down in time to the spinning of the Catherine wheel. A short while later, and she’s happily asleep on my front, not even stirring when the local display down the road reaches its booming conclusion.

And on the plus side for the Wee Man today, he’s very much in favour of his ‘apple lollipop’ – a massively sticky, gloopy toffee apple which has ended up mostly down his front. So there is at least one thing he’s enjoyed. Immensely, going by the toffee adorned state of his top and his gooey looking grin.

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