Guy Fawkes

It's Guy Fawkes Day! When I was a kid growing up in Africa, this day was my favorite day each year because we were treated to the best fireworks display and burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes at the stake. We also had sparklers to celebrate the event :) In early England a man named Guy Fawkes headed a plot to blow up Parliament but was caught before he could make it happen and was burnt at the stake instead.
At this celebration, the fireworks display is quite spectacular and ends with a buring at stake. The only difference is that the effigy is filled with firecrackers of every kind. When the flames finally get to his head, his head explodes with dozens of rockets that fly into the air in wild succession! It was always such fun!!

I reached another milestone today - I finally decided on a title for my book! I am really excited about that because the title is a nickname that was given to my father by the schoolboys at the boarding school where he was the principal for many years. The one word title in the dialect means 'Patches' because the book is written in 3 sections. My father had an amazing ability to fix anything with nothing, a skill that he acquired as an airplane mechanic in the Navy at Guadalcanal during WWII and which served him well as the principal of a boarding school. My novel is dedicated to the memory of my husband and also to my father :)