Author Topic: Fireworks. (Read 3670 times)

budgiebreeder · « **on:** November 03, 2003, 21:04:47 »

Feel I must once more remark on the length of time Fireworks are let off for. Every year we aare assured something has been done about it.But we have already had a whole week of it.I am not a killjoy I love Bonfire Night and all that goes with it . But the Birds and Animals don't.It's very difficult to console an aviary full of Birds.

tim · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2003, 21:34:35 »

- bonfires - lovely - but I'm truly fed up with rocket sticks in the garden - they can be quite lethal. Lost sleep? Oh, well! , there's always another day? - Tim

Hugh_Jones · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2003, 22:18:51 »

Quite agree Tim. Found one yesterday lying on top of a cracked pane in a newly glazed cold frame. Still, if you can collect enough of them they make excellent pot plant supports.

ina · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2003, 23:10:38 »

What's this bonfire night please? -Ina

teresa · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2003, 23:30:49 »

Hi Ina
Bonfire Night when we so call celebrate Guy Faulks attempt at blowing up the houses of Parliment.
He failed but we send up rockets skywards and bannagers and sparkley bits made with gunpowder to remember him. November the 5th but as these days it starts a month before hand and carries on my dogs are nervous wrecks and now at weddings, birthday parties etcs they sell fireworks to let off in the evening so all the year you can have the bangs going off anywhere.
You may have them to celebrate New Year/Christmas they do in Germany.
I love them but wish they did not make sooooooo much noise.

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #5 on:** November 04, 2003, 01:37:05 »

hehehehehehehe very good ozzy, very good :D

Palefire · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2003, 09:18:52 »

That's quite a good one, Ozzy. If you keep it up, you'll be rivalling the Sunday Groaners!!

As for Fireworks, yes, I love them in the right setting - but our reaction to Guy Fawkes definitely has a lot to answer for. 11 o'clock last night and several nights before - and that's the planned ones. The little manure heaps round here let them off in the street >:(, which I believe is an offence (so don't do it people!) and in the lane/alley that runs behind our house >:( >:(. Due to my being owned by a rather nervous Calico moggy ;), I have to stay up to make sure the bangers have stopped until way past my bedtime :( before I let her out for her night time ablutions.

Love, Palefire

xxx

Beer_Belly · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2003, 13:27:35 »

Ina - November the fifth in England is like New Years eve in Holland. Big fires (but in England we set them in fields and not in the street like here) and in England they don't tend to set fire to any cars either. Fireworks are the same (but seem more powerful in Holland) Oh and in England we make a doll (like the Dutch Abraham) to represent Guy Fawkes and put him on the fire.
greets,
-BB

mellie · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2003, 14:04:52 »

I live in Portsmouth, only a two minute walk from where they are holding the big local display, For the last three years it has made my windows shake when they let the fireworks off. Last year we sedated our cat but this year we wont be doing that because it still upset him just as much. I cant explain to him that it's only fun, he doesnt think it is!!! I just hope it is all over quickly and I can settle him down again before bedtime.

minerva · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2003, 17:00:17 »

Last night on the local news (points West) there was an article about a wild bird sanctury, the local round table had a firework display right next to the santury and a swan ,ducks and pheasants all literally died of shock! they showed a little cygnet that could no longer walk as it had been trampled by the other birds in fear from the niose. I CAN NOT believe these people think that it is ok to to inflict this on the poor birds just for half an hours fun?
sam
xx

budgiebreeder · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2003, 18:32:05 »

Have they no intelligence.Birds can easily die of fright.I just can't understand some people.It makes me so angry.

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2003, 20:34:14 »

I am sure I heard on the telly or radio over the weekend that the laws regarding the sale of fireworks was 'postponed' for millenium celebrations, and as yet they haven't been reinstated. I also heard somewhere that an idea has been put forward making it necessary for anyone buying fireworks to go get a licence first. I don't mind the displays, I don't mind people haveing parties in their gardens, we did at the weekend, and we warned all neighbours with cats what we were doing so everyone was aware, it is the kids that set them off all times of day (why in the day!) and night. I am not a party pooper what so ever, live and let live and all that, it just gets on your nerves in the end, and my little girl hates the bangs and it wakes her in the middle of the night, now her disturbing my sleep doesn't make for a happy Emma! :-/

Colin_Bellamy-Wood · « **Reply #12 on:** November 04, 2003, 22:09:25 »

Once upon a time, when I was a little lad, fifty years, or less, ago, we built a bonfire on a piece of waste land which was surrounded by houses, and on 5th Nov not before, not after, adults lit the bonfire, Dads supervised the lighting of fireworks, Mums provided parkin and other delicacies. The fireworks were squibs compared to those we get today.

The fireworks of today are far more dangerous than they were all those years ago. Those that are called Air Bombs are like a grenade going off, which rattle the windows. I know what a grenade is like when it goes off - I saw one explode outside my flat when I was stationed in Aden. These are not fireworks, they are dangerous weapons in the same category as a grenade. I believe they are banned, but somehow they are getting into the hands of idiots.

I concur that I don't want to be a kiljoy for neighbours enjoying their parties, provided they act in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, the idiot minority are going to spoil things for the sensible majority, and laws will be passed. However, the laws that will inevitably be passed will not be enforcible by an already stretched police force. It is also possible that neighbour relations are going to take an even greater dive.

What a thoughtless inconsiderate world this is becoming. I sympathise so much with Victor Meldrew.

CanadaGoose · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2003, 22:23:09 »

Victor Meldrew...............perfect ::)

ina · « **Reply #14 on:** November 04, 2003, 22:56:33 »

A thank you to those who took the trouble to explain to this ignoranimus what bonfire day is. I feel a bit ashamed that I know so little about our neighbors' traditions (but not so much that I wouldn't ask hahaha). -Ina

Palefire · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2003, 20:57:11 »

No probs, Ina. There has been a lot of hoo haa today on tv and radio regarding whether we should still celebrate Guy Fawkes night or not. I think we should, because it's part of our tradition and when else can we stand in a muddy field freezing our noses and toeses and saying "Oooo" and "Aaah" at the display?

It's the idiots that give old ladies heart attacks by putting them through letter boxes and kill birds by having a display next to a sanctuary that spoil it, but there will always be a minority faction to every kind of entertainment, sport, activity etc who are determined to be a right royal pain in the a**e. Personally, I think the sale of fireworks should be restricted to one week around bonfire night in terms of public use and to licensed users for the rest of the year. It's about to be law that there will be an on the spot fine of £80 for anyone caught using fireworks in the street.

Anyway:
Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gun Powder, Treason and Plot..........

Love, Palefire

xxx

p.s. the rest of the rhyme and a bit about Guy Fawkes can be read on the following page:

http://www.crossways-holidays.com/gf.php

Margaret · « **Reply #16 on:** November 06, 2003, 18:16:00 »

Hi all.I'm sure that if you asked the opinion of the people up in scotland,whose puppy had a firework thrown at it and when it exploded it burnt him so severely that he died,in what must have been agony,they would say like me that they should all be BANNED!or the little gerbil who was attached to one and blown to pieces.

They are very frightening,very dangerous,and a waste of money.I was nearly very severely injured by a box of fireworks exploding years ago,and that was at an organised display.Even without that incident,imagine the terror that the birds and wildlife go through every night for weeks on end;worse for them because they are outside.It must sound like guns to them.It is just another weapon in the hands of yobs and i bl...y hate them!!

jethro · « **Reply #17 on:** November 06, 2003, 18:19:50 »

Hi Maggie, totally agree, i wil go down to the lottie tonight to feed the livestock after work, not looking forward to it as some of the birds have died in the past years >:( .

Colin_Bellamy-Wood · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2003, 22:22:30 »

Someone near us was letting off air-bombs after midnight last night. I don't believe it.

jethro · « **Reply #19 on:** November 10, 2003, 13:37:11 »

Some of the rockets set off the alarms on the cars they were that loud >:(

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