[West Ender]

When my children were small my husband always bought fireworks and we would have a bonfire in the garden, as my dad used to do when I was a child. It was roman candles, fountains, chrysanthemums, catherine wheels and little rockets. The nearest we came to dangerous was when a rocket shot through our neighbour's open bathroom window and landed in her toilet. She was at our bonfire anyway so she was fine about it.

You couldn't buy the huge explosives that are on sale these days and we used to get the £5 box of Standard fireworks that had no bangers. They were pretty and fun to watch. The huge things they sell now should be banned, they are dangerous and downright annoying for those who have to listen to them all evening.