Bonfire spotting
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hellisonAm 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 :/
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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