Guy Fawkes

Driving down a Barrow Road tonight it seems more like a reenactment of world war two than Guy Fawkes night. The battle was between the two estates separated by a main road Chavway on the low ground and Onsick Green the high ground. The winner being the side which made the most noise for longest. Similar battle's raged between rival estates the length and breadth of town. Unbelievable amounts of giro's were spent at the local dodgy dealers in exchange for illegal display fireworks and all loaded into the disability funded people carrier's to be carried back to the opposing estates. Fence's were ripped down and thrown on the hurriedly built bonfires along with the wide screen TVs and settee's that had been in the front garden since last year. Who won? well that's hard to tell, and by the time all the packs of yellow Lynx lager and wacky baccy had gone neither side cared anyway.