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“What is my favourite website”

I need to get up early for work tomorrow and I’m very tired so this prompt will be very short.

Personally I really enjoy WordPress of course but I also really enjoy Youtube, I admit I spend way too much time on youtube. I’ve gotten better at limiting my time on it but I definitely am on it for longer than normal I’m pretty sure.

And fun fact its bonfire night, firework or guy fawks night here in the UK right now, strangely I don’t hear many fireworks right now, usually once every year theres loads going off. The celebration goes back to the 1600s.

In a very quick summary if you don’t know, the tradition started to celebrate the Monarch and our Parliment not getting blown up by some men who plotted to do just that, Guy Fawkes among them but their plans were stopped, just in time.

However no one, despite learning about the backstory behind it (which is fairly dark if you look more into it), we don’t really care about why we celebrate it, its just a fun thing to do.

I’ve always found the dark poem about it interesting though, very dark of course but it definitely helped me remember the history behind this celebration.

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!

Most people I know from the UK know of this part, but not many know about the other parts of the poem down below. I only know what it actually was, a couple of years ago, dark but very interesting so I thought I’d share!

Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.
But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

The poem is from 1626, very creepy but pretty fascinating to me. I have a prompt about me wondering about if something changed in the past, how would it effect the future? I do wonder what would have happened to England if they’d managed to pull it off? Very fascinating!

And I’ve talked for way longer than I thought I would so I’m of to bed, 5am start in the morning….yay…