Another celebration that increasingly made no sense to me was Guy Fawkes, but the chance to explode a lot of fireworks has — just — kept it going. When I moved with my young family to Banks Peninsula in the early 1970s, I knew nothing of Matariki but I did know winter solstice marked a major turn of seasons. So when Guy Fawkes time turned up again in November, I bought a bunch of fireworks and stored them carefully in the hot water cupboard. So, for starters, it is about time we ditched Guy Fawkes and began thinking about our own gunpowder plot to blow up out-of-date and out-of-location celebrations. Second, readjust summer school holidays to the most logical time — the end of January until the beginning of March.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 22, 2022 22:35 UTC