Conrad, what puzzles me is that you are very critical of singer-songwriters for undermining real traditional music, but you are quite happy to cobble together made-up traditions for your own purposes. Can't you see that this is just the same?

If your local laws require you to cook food on the bonfire, then sausages and baked potatoes are the traditional foods cooked this way. Roast turkey and Christmas Pudding are "traditional" only at Christmas.

Bonfire Night was not a celebration of the safeguarding of parliamentary freedom and democracy (neither of which really existed at the time) but of the preservation of the Protestant monarchy against an attempt to restore Catholicism.