I was at Neil’s place on Sunday the 9th, which was Remembrance Sunday. And he mentioned that Llandudno has a quirky tradition: on that day, an acquaintance of his fires a cannon (blanks, of course) from a hill overlooking the Promenade. And we decided to go and watch.
It seems that he had the cannon custom made. It’s very shiny! And he fires it using gunpowder in aluminium foil, with a crumpled up newspaper as the blank. We got there just in time. Below, you could see the crowds on the promenade, where a ceremony took place.
It was cool to watch! With my fingers in my ears. Is especially having war machinery made in the spirit of Remembrance Day? Is a clearly pre-20th century cannon design particularly apt? Is coming for the cannon rather than the act of remembrance the most respectful way of approaching the occasion? Not really, to all of these. But there we are. It’s what happened.
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