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Echo my thoughts exactly Margaret... Even this year our new neighbours next door were setting them off in the back yard right below my bedroom window - didn't think to tell us what they were going to do - and the chap in one of the other flats (next door is divided into 3 flats) has 3 cats - bet they were terrified. I think people were setting them off on the beach as well - lots of noise coming from that direction.

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I trust that by "americanised" you are talking our noisy neighbours;)

In Kingston we have a fireworks display once a year, on July 1, Canada Day:alright: A few folks let them off in their back yards; but there isn't much of it. Strange to say, it doesn't bother my animals. Hope, Emma, and Pookie slept through it this year. Angus and Babette sat in the window looking mildly interested.

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Thats probably where we differ susie, when I'm on Accy Web its the most serious part of my day:D:D

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I know a girl like that mobertol, but it ain't fireworks that makes her go Ohhhhh and Ahhhhhh:D

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John i think you need to have a cold shower all this talk of ohhin and ahhin and black underwear will be getting you overexcited:D:D

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Chance would be a fine thing Dave:D:D

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Try Googling Ohhhh and ahhhh John -i just did;) Quite a revelation!

I really should have better things to do....:D

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Now, this is what I call a firework...:D:D:D:D:D:D

World largest fireworks! (48 inches shell !!) - YouTube

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This aint bad either, the ohhhs and ahhhhs are all in japanese - sorry,

Japanese Ground Shells (FX) - This is Just Madness - YouTube

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Why do the japanese do these things so much better than we seem to be able to manage...

09??????????????????100????? - YouTube

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Last one - this is breathtaking!

** HD ** 83rd Fireworks of Omagari ( Bushido ) - YouTube

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The Japanese have made the whole world glow ;) (Fukushima)

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well mine never seemed to look owt like that.

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"There is great pride in having the biggest and best display to be seen from one village to the next...typical male thing (re:mine is bigger than yours and therefore better!) a sort of ostentation of strength if you like.:D" (My earlier post)

How does this tie in with your comment Acrylic-well you know what they say about Oriental men -must have somthing to do with a certain kind of envy....;):rolleyes:

Spectacular fireworks though...

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Errm, actually, what they say about oriental men is, in my experience, pretty wide of the mark.

However I do not propose to be drawn any further down that particular path.

Did anyone see BBC Breakfast this morning? There was an item in which local traders were complaining about the German Christmas Market which has been running in Birmingham, in the city centre for some years. Apparently it brings in about £90 Million every year and it is visited by tens of thousands of people. How? Simple. It is the biggest outside Germany.

And I compared this to Accrington Town centre at Christmas. A few Rockets and a couple of strings of coloured bulbs. And I thought, is it any wonder the town centre is going down the crapper. The shops are selling the same stuff they sell all year long. The shopkeepers are, for the most part, surly, unhelpful and slovenly. Their premises, and the decoration of them, leave such a lot to be desired.

The Council, when it comes to the Markets and the town Centre are, if this can be imagined, even more clueless. They would much rather throw the limited budget they are granted each year away on mind numbing drivel such as this...

http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa..._Framework.pdf

They have no understanding or appreciation of Art and the uses to which it can be put - They employ Gayle as their ARTS CZAR, enough said.

As it stands at the moment the Town Centre looks more like some industrial backwater in communist controlled eastern Europe.

It needs smartening up. It needs to be made user friendly. I would strongly advocate free Prozac for market traders (compulsory). It needs good and broadly circulated advertising. It needs events. Specatacular Events. All year round. The whole town needs this.

And it also needs most of the Progress Towards Equality Framework, PC, Inclusive, diversity babble dragging to the nearest tip and dumping.

Oh dear, I seem to be on a rant. Sorry!:o