Gunpowder Plot rhymes
This heinous episode has been reflected in a traditional song sung by the bonfires and everywhere all over Britain. Here are two of its versions: Remember, remember the fifth of November,
gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys,
make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys,
God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
(traditionally the following verses were also sung,
but they have fallen out of favour because of their content)
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah!
Berkshire
Remember, remember the Vifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
Pray tell me the reason why Gunpowder treason,
Should iver be vorgot.
Our Quane's a valiant Zawlger.
Car's her blunderbus on her right shawldewr,
Cocks her pistol, drays her rapier,
Praay gie us zummit vor her zaayke yer,
A stick, an'a styaake vor Quane Vickey's zaakye,
If e wunt gie on I'll taayke tow.
The better vor we an' the wrus vor you.
-1890's,Northall, English Folk Rhymes.,246.
Murder mystery parties
They are an extremely popular form of entertainment in Britain. Dating back to the parlour games in mediaeval Europe, they have been around for many years, with a massive surge in their popularity over the last ten years. They are role play games, taking place at a host's place. The guests receive their invitations and costume suggestions in advance and on arrival at the party they assume their roles. They stay in character throughout the party in an attempt to solve the murder. All the guests have motives and hidden pasts. The guests work their way through information booklets and clues theyâre given at the party, asking and answering questions as they go to help them solve the murder.
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 Calendar Girls is about the women of the Rylstone Women's Institute in North Yorkshire. This Women's Group produces a calendar each year based around scenes of the Yorkshire dales. In 1999, one of the ladies husbands became ill with leukemia. He would say that if the ladies planted Sunflowers, he'd make sure he'd get better so he could see them. Unfortunately, he didn't pull through and in order to raise funds for Leukemia research the women decided to make an alternative calendar of themselves in the nude hoping to sell a few hundred copies around their villages. This calendar in fact became a worldwide sensation, out-selling even those of Britney Spears and Cindy Crawford.
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 The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
by Christopher Monger
"The story is about two topographers that arrive at a little town situated in England or Wales (I don't remember exactly) at the end of the nineteenth or the begining of twentieth century. They have to measure the main elevation of the place. The measurement is done and the people of the town discover that their elevation isn't high enough for a mountain. But, they are proud of their main elevation and they'll try to transform their little hill into a real mountain.
The film is just a light comedy but for me it was interesting to think about the possibility that the plot may be based on a real story (the value people give to the landscape). Hugh Grant works in this film."
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