Bonfire spotting

Am in the brother's house, just went up to check on The Precious (who is thankfully fast asleep) and since I could hear fireworks, went to the front windows to have a look.

Belfast is mostly in a valley and the brother's house is on a hill at the S edge, so it has a pretty good view of the city and hills behind. Just looking out I could see about 6 or 7 bonfires and the smoke of several more. There's quite a spectacularly apocalyptic view - bursts of flames flickering between the roof tops and huge columns of smoke perfectly outlined against the clear sky. If we were a film city we'd probably either be Gotham or a Generic Just Bombed City.

Some of these bonfires are bloody massive -
http://www.trekearth.com/workshops/72967/photo15138.htm gives some idea, thot thats not the biggest I've seen - the one they've built there this year (it's just down the road from here) is quite a bit bigger than that.

Some of them are several miles away and they're still clearly visible - not the just the smoke, the actual fires. It's even more fun spotting with binoculars, I counted over 10. The best part of course is trying to drive on the roads after this happens - http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo72967.htm - but luckily those nice Orange men are using all the roads tomorrow, so we don't have to drive on them til the tar has stopped melting.
Very considerate of them ;)

Apparently tomorrow is to be sunny again so I forsee a day of sitting outside throwing things for the dog to chase, watching The Precious stick his head in a bucket of water (it keeps him amused for ages) and running after him with suncream while shouting 'No! Don't do/throw/eat that'.

But now it is LATE and he will be up EARLY.
Woe :/

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So I was wrong about the Precious sleeping thro the night - the howls started right on cue just as I was dropping off to sleep at about 1.30 (how does he KNOW?).

I was right about the EARLY tho. HALF FUCKING FIVE.
Still the rest of the day was fun, sat in the sun til it got too hot, came in watched tv or drew on the walls, go back outside, repeat, with added family who came round for a barbeque causing much screaming of 'NO MINE' amid The Precii (precuxen?)

We also got to phone the brother and tell him how much fun we were having in his garden while he was away, which was good ;p

Hmm. Just worked out that since sat. morning I've had about 13 hrs sleep and most of those in a tent. Hopefully tonight I can even up the score a little.
Also, have not killed the Mother yet. Which is good, since she's doing all the cooking and Choosing of Appropriate Attire, since there is apparently some Unwritten Code re. how to clothe young children which I know nothing of.
It's all very complicated.