TIDESWELL & DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
BONFIRE AND FIREWORKS 2015
This year’s bonfire will be on
SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER
Please put the date in your diary.
So to celebrate here’s a poem from Dave Greenan…
The Community Association bonfire is seriously under threat
So I’ve penned this little ditty for the Village Voice gazette.
I know, for me, that it would be a source of much regret
If this year’s pyrotechnics show is the last one that we get.
DO YOU GUYS GIVE A FAWKES?
Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.
But also remember it’s unwise to surrender the good things that you’ve got.
‘Use it or lose it’, the saying goes, and the situation now is quite dire;
There are major concerns, apropos the future of the village bonfire.
It would seem that support for the village bonfire has dwindled over the years,
And the unflagging team behind the scenes have voiced their heartfelt fears.
Despite all their valiant efforts, patronage seems to diminish,
So much so, that after this year’s show, the Community Bonfire could finish.
So no more bonfire raging high, tongues of flame licking the sky
From pallet wood, old crates and ply, and cast out wardrobes you supply.
No flickering sparks that fizz and fly around a fiery straw filled guy
Whilst children shriek and squeal nearby… all could be lost. And here is why.
After years of lighting up the skies with wiz~bangs, rockets and strobes,
‘Bengal Flares’ and ‘Falling Leaves’ and exploding illuminous globes,
It appears that over the last few years ‘on the night takings’ were in arrears,
And this, fellow villagers, fuels my fear, that the whole shebang could disappear.
Abandonment to be precise, despite all their self-sacrifice.
To show a profit would be nice but breaking even would suffice.
But now they’ve reached a tipping point, almost at the breaking point,
And considered from my own viewpoint, to lose it now would disappoint.
The situation then is fraught; they’re reaching out for your support,
‘Hands on’ volunteers are sought before the team have to abort.
If you can lend a helping hand assisting this hardworking band
To carry on, perhaps expand, then next year’s show could proceed as planned.
But more than this, much more than this, essential indeed,
Is that you frequent this year’s event and help it to succeed.
So please attend as much depends on a bumper crowd in November
Or it could transpire that this year’s fire could be a dying ember.
Dave Greenan