Fireworks
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Blokes & Dogs Tads, tell a hound to get over here as we're off out in the rain, or just off the sofa/seat/bed, nothing, deaf as a post. Yet go into the kitchen & open "their" cupboards/fridge & they're near on running you over & that close you'd think you had a pork chop hangin' out your pocket.
I hate the bloody fireworks.
I had to take a week off work so I can walk the dogs earlier (while it is still light) and one of them will not go out in the evenings except when she is crossing her legs and then it's only a quick one.
The only saving grace this year has been the rain, I look forward to it every oct - jan.
I had to take a week off work so I can walk the dogs earlier (while it is still light) and one of them will not go out in the evenings except when she is crossing her legs and then it's only a quick one.
The only saving grace this year has been the rain, I look forward to it every oct - jan.
add to that the number of ex servicemen with PTSD who are bothered by them as well. nothing will happen though as it will be the samew at new year and all next year as well.
Yes…I have to admit that I also hope for a wet and windy Bonfire month…because these days that is how long the fireworks seem to last….added to that we live close to the Dunkenhalgh…..so when there is a big party for a wedding, birthday etc…I can guarantee there will be fireworks…often after 11pm.
I do not mind those the just Whoosh…but what in heavens name is the attraction of bangers that sound like bombs going off.
I think that to buy fireworks you should have to do a pyrotechnics course, have a licence renewable each year at a cost and prove that you know how to handle these things.
And all fireworks should cease at 11pm.
I do not mind those the just Whoosh…but what in heavens name is the attraction of bangers that sound like bombs going off.
I think that to buy fireworks you should have to do a pyrotechnics course, have a licence renewable each year at a cost and prove that you know how to handle these things.
And all fireworks should cease at 11pm.
I can thoroughly agree with that, I've always been fine & had no problems despite the tours I was involved in. What always struck me, especially living here in Germany was the amount of fireworks & especially "Bangers" that were set off for New year, I often wondered & still do how some of the older folk feel on new years eve.
Bramsche is 14km from Osnabrück a major Garrison town in the days of Adolf (also later when the Brits were stationed here), added to that the metalworks, railyards & industry, plus the 3 Airfields, Achmer, Hesepe & Vorden took a very heavy toll in bombings from the RAF & USAF. I'm pretty sure the yearly carousing & festivities on the 31st would most certainly bring back some unpleasant memories for some of these folk.
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In the 90's I worked with a bloke whose brother owned a firework company that put on organised displays. Mark, the guy I worked with, had a licence to be responsible for displays so he could help his brother out around November 5th and the amount of stuff he had to know to keep it was incredible. Now, I suspect those same powerful fireworks can just be bought over the counter by any idiot who hasn't got a clue what they're doing. Our oldest cat had a wonderful year this year because she's gone deaf and hadn't got a clue what was going on so just slept peacefully through it.
there cannot be many of these folk around now unlike in the 50,s where nearly everyone from senior school upwards would have remembered them in many parts of the country. fireworks were never thought of being a problem back then. two reasons were they were not as loud and only went on anyway for a few hours one day a year. imagine the uproar then if celebrations went on for a week or for every birthday through the year.
yes they were, but after last nights lot it seems as if it falls on a friday they are also put back 8 days.
Strange…I do not recall postponing/ bringing forward Bonfire Night if it fell on a Sunday.
As far as I remember .bonfire night was only ever held on the fifth of November…it was never a moveable feast.
I think the bommy on Saturday was more of an economic/social thing, especially when the Pubs would put a display on. As Kids I recall we'd take it in turns amongst the neighbours as to who'd host the bommy that year & all the Mums would do something to take, butties, pies, sossy rolls Treacle toffe etc (all home made mind).
The Dads would organize the "Party 7's" a modest packet or two of fireworks, (weren't going to waste good Beer tokens on rockets), & us kids would get some sparklers, then as the fire burnt down & turned to embers we'd stuff spuds & Chezzies in tinfoil around the edges.
Happy days & the joy of kidhood!
The Dads would organize the "Party 7's" a modest packet or two of fireworks, (weren't going to waste good Beer tokens on rockets), & us kids would get some sparklers, then as the fire burnt down & turned to embers we'd stuff spuds & Chezzies in tinfoil around the edges.
Happy days & the joy of kidhood!
It never was but i,m sure as a kid that one year most people had their fireworks and bonfires on another day when it did fall on a sunday. remember back in the old days sunday was regarded as a day of non enjoyment where even just playing out was frowned on by some miserable sods. can still hear the words of don,t you know its sunday when you dared to kick a ball about in the afternoon. its one thing where change has been for the better.
Yeah bommy night was 5th whatever the day. Plate meat and spud pie, red cabbage,separate pastry on loose broth, suping Bovril, fireworks and treacle toffee.... and them black peas and vinegar. Kids know zip, it was fun not a biggest bang, you wanted it still burning in the morning
Treacle toffee, we didn’t have Bovril….we had dandelion and burdock(stantons…stone bottles)
Sarsaparilla and home made ginger beer to drink(I am sure that stuff was alcoholic because our lads used to go daft after drinking it)….a great big Jacobs join….Mrs Flynn made the best Parkin ever.
And the fireworks were more for wonder than for scary……bangers didn’t burst your ear drums.
Sarsaparilla and home made ginger beer to drink(I am sure that stuff was alcoholic because our lads used to go daft after drinking it)….a great big Jacobs join….Mrs Flynn made the best Parkin ever.
And the fireworks were more for wonder than for scary……bangers didn’t burst your ear drums.