Take a Moment- visit a bonfire

The angry orange glow is a beacon calling people in droves into its sphere of warmth. It crackles and spits like an angry monster and leans drunkenly to one side as logs collapse altering its foundations. Despite the element of danger it emits, people are drawn by the warmth and protection it provides. They stare mesmerised at its dancing fingers of flames that reach far into the dark night sky.

Fingers thaw and faces tingle as a blanket of heat hits the skin like the sun on a Spanish summer’s day. Warming up feels amazing but toes are still pinched with cold. The chill winter night steals around the back of people’s legs and creeps up their spines. A reminder of the dark and the unknown looming behind them. Sinister and threatening. Shivering, the crowd draws closer to the fire.

On Bonfire Night, our friendly and welcoming park has been transformed into a dark, dangerous and unknown place. Familiar trees now throw menacing shadows resembling old bent hags with long groping fingers that flicker and dance in the light of the flames. Whilst the fire burns imaginations can run wild in the magical world it creates.

Slowly the flames subside and eventually all that is left are the glowing embers. People leave the park eager to get home to the light and warmth. The magic is over and the spell has been broken for another year.