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I read the comments, and can see that the element of danger,

shock surprise and damage, is an inherent part of what we still refer to as bonfire night,

as though there is a little of the anarchist in all of us..


There has to be a thesis here..


I miss the old days ...

I knew it was the beginning of the end when they banned jumping crackers. Every year my dad would set off a jumping cracker near my mum and she would be running around the garden like a headless chicken while it went off. The day after Guy Fawkes we would go and collect up all the rockets that had landed in the streets, empty the leftover gunpowder into a pile and set light to it.....very disappointing
Back in the day me and my mates would knock on people's doors asking for old wood for our bonfire .which was a regular thing every year .then going out with our made up guyfawkes and asking for penny for the guy.and then spending any money made on sweets and bangers.thats fireworks not sausages.one year some naughty boys put a couple of tins of paint in the middle of the bonfire to see what would happen not a good idea.if you don't want your garden or neighbours covered in paint or being maimed by a paint tin flying through the air at 50 mph. STAY SAFE .
  • 11 months later...

I agree - I wish I had seen that advice before I went shopping locally. It wasn't just Lidl that were selling bargains, though. After the event I saw that Aldi was selling a single ignition firework that lasted for over 2 minutes for only ?50. That's a proper bargain - you can easily pay ?75 or ?80 quid for something similar, locally.


Next year it's down to Aldi or Lidl for sure, nice and early before they sell out!

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