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| value seeker |
Bonfire Night Nov 5thSeems a lot quieter this year in the lead up ,not hearing too many fireworks going off.Use to love bonfire night as a kid .mother always made sure we had fireworks set off in the back garden with other families bringing their boxes. Sadly though my dad passed away on bonfire night and I stopped celebrating it. Any stories of old bonfire nights as kids and what you will be up to this bonfire night? |
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| golfswing |
Re: Bonfire Night Nov 5th
Never been a big bonfire fan. I will be having a piano lesson.. I suppose Handel's Firework music would be appropriate 
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| Flipando |
Driving home from uni to make it back for a few fireworks in the back yard. One of my favourite days of the year! | ||
| Rowan |
Re: Bonfire Night Nov 5th
Good. I used to love fireworks night before every little toerag out there could buy them and let them off in the streets for weeks before the night. I'm extremely relieved that changes in the law cut that down. Not sure why it's quieter this year but last year it was like Beirut here. If they went back to having fireworks that were more about "ooooh, pretty" than containing more explosives than the average IED in Helmand, I'd be happy. I've posted this before but... The whole family used to get together on Bonfire night, do the whole thing - potatoes in the fire, stews, punch. Living in Somerset as we did, we had some extra glamour on the night - http://www.bridgwatercarnival.org.uk - check out the video archive! I can remember the whole family gathering at my gran's house for lunch (you couldn't get into the village if you came later! Or park...) before heading out into the night, us kids clutching sparklers and the adults with beer, watching the carnival go by - it would be incredibly hot with all the lights on the floats, and you had to shout over the loud music and the generators. This was over 30 years ago, the floats were nothing like as elaborate as they are now, but the competition was so fierce! The floats would be parked up in the laybys between Taunton and Bridgwater, all hidden under tarps so noone could see what they were. Course, we only had gossip in those days so it was easier to keep them a surprise (at least, to the kids). |
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| alfieatkins |
hardly heard a peep this year not that am complaining but maybe fireworks might not be cool enough to the youth of today | ||
| The_Pilgarlic |
There has been a massive clamp down on selling them to U16s.
The decent ones are expensive and you literally have to have money to burn to get anything together for a 'private display', so I'd say if you are buying them just because it's November 5th, they are only slightly as big a waste of money then fags. IMO, better off going to a public display - most of which will be tonight or either this or last weekend. |
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| Chewster |
They've been going off every night for about the past four weeks round here - mostly the little oiks setting them off in the streets for a laugh.
Not helped by our local tesco and sainsburys selling all fireworks on buy one get one free! 
Hopefully it'll die down after this weekend - unless the supermarkets cut their prices even more to get rid of surplus stock. |
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