[eye30]

Any of our uk members having bonfire and fire works tonight?

I live near a park and they have a display.

As 99% of the fireworks are airborne i can watch from the bedroom window.

[asathorny]

Any of our uk members having bonfire and fire works tonight?

I live near a park and they have a display.

As 99% of the fireworks are airborne i can watch from the bedroom window.

Alan, you are so cheap     

Just for that I am minded to shove a rip-rap through your letterbox   

[Shambles]

Any of our uk members having bonfire and fire works tonight?

I live near a park and they have a display.

As 99% of the fireworks are airborne i can watch from the bedroom window.

Alan, you are so cheap     

"Alan" - the new name for Lester

[AlanHo]

Don't worry about it Steve I have been called worse.

I am immune - having spent a lifetime being insulted by experts.

[diablo]

I can hear what seems to be the official Blackpool display though I am a fair way from where they hold it. Haven't heard any fireworks nearer tonight, maybe they've let them off in the last few days. Next door had lots on Sunday night.

A few years ago our local convenience store and local pub used to have a competition for best display. They both have flat roof areas and set off many hundreds, few yards from my house.

[asathorny]

Any of our uk members having bonfire and fire works tonight?

I live near a park and they have a display.

As 99% of the fireworks are airborne i can watch from the bedroom window.

Alan, you are so cheap     

"Alan" - the new name for Lester

I couldn't be bothered to go back n change it....   Steve...  Bill...  Joe   OH waddever   

[Shambles]

That's a cracker

[Dazzler]

Any of our uk members having bonfire and fire works tonight?

I live near a park and they have a display.

As 99% of the fireworks are airborne i can watch from the bedroom window.

Alan, you are so cheap     

"Alan" - the new name for Lester

Bit too easy to get confused now with Lester's new moniker! 

[Lakes]

 

ASA you need glass's.

You can easily see the difference between Alan & Lester, Alan has the hollywood smile

Bonfire Night or Cracker Night, is just a memory here, we had it killed off years ago in New South Wales, shops can't sell fireworks. but think West Australia they do & think in ACT they do. we lead a sheltered life

[eye30]

Asa,

Watched the firework display and not bad for free.

Alan

[eye30]

Any of our uk members having bonfire and fire works tonight?

I live near a park and they have a display.

As 99% of the fireworks are airborne i can watch from the bedroom window.

Alan, you are so cheap     

"Alan" - the new name for Lester

Bit too easy to get confused now with Lester's new moniker! 

I've a lovely smile!

[Lester]

One thing I miss about the UK, as a kid, do the Guy Fawkes night/bonfire night on November 5.

Build the bonfire all year, then torch it and let off ye olde fireworks.   Are fireworks banned these days in UK, other than for approved events by and set off by licensed operators? 

[eye30]

One thing I miss about the UK, as a kid, do the Guy Fawkes night/bonfire night on November 5.

Build the bonfire all year, then torch it and let off ye olde fireworks.   Are fireworks banned these days in UK, other than for approved events by and set off by licensed operators? 

Still buy them in shops but the number of sellers is very small as they have to comply with allsorts of regs...

Very expensive and most just seem to pour out smoke with a bang at the end.

[diablo]

One thing I miss about the UK, as a kid, do the Guy Fawkes night/bonfire night on November 5.

Build the bonfire all year, then torch it and let off ye olde fireworks.   Are fireworks banned these days in UK, other than for approved events by and set off by licensed operators? 

Still buy them in shops but the number of sellers is very small as they have to comply with allsorts of regs...

Very expensive and most just seem to pour out smoke with a bang at the end.

They sell them in supermarkets round 'ere, plus every autumn some empty shops get rebranded as firework shops for a month or two. They sell everything and don't our local cats know about it - all terrified for about a fortnight and then again at New Year.

Maybe you have some funny by-laws in Wirral ?

They are expensive though.

[asathorny]

One thing I miss about the UK, as a kid, do the Guy Fawkes night/bonfire night on November 5.

Build the bonfire all year, then torch it and let off ye olde fireworks.   Are fireworks banned these days in UK, other than for approved events by and set off by licensed operators? 

Still buy them in shops but the number of sellers is very small as they have to comply with allsorts of regs...

Very expensive and most just seem to pour out smoke with a bang at the end.

They sell them in supermarkets round 'ere, plus every autumn some empty shops get rebranded as firework shops for a month or two. They sell everything and don't our local cats know about it - all terrified for about a fortnight and then again at New Year.

Maybe you have some funny by-laws in Wirral ?

They are expensive though.

Same here, the pakistanis buy them for eide and other celebrations, the Chinese buy them for their new year and our mob buy them for Bonti night, new years eve and Christmas.   And everyone seems to just buy them for any old party.
They're a bloody nuisance really.
I s'pose if your brought up on the Wirral they'd be a daily event and you'd get immune to them 

[The Gonz]

I miss the mulled wine.

[Surferdude]

I played Guy Fawkes in a school play once.  It was a courtroom comedy.   We tried him and other historical figures. In his case we found him (me), guilty of FAILING to blow up Parliament House and thereby creating a public nuisance.  As the guilty verdict was read out I produced an impossibly   large bunger from under my cloak,  threw it at the judge and ran out through the audience,  laughing hysterically.

[The Gonz]

The review read 'Young Surferdude was on fire that night.'

[Surferdude]

I WAS a young surferdude at that time.  My first year on a proper surfboard.  1962.

[The Gonz]

I WAS a young surferdude at that time.  My first year on a proper surfboard.  1962.

Similar to my situation. I was a tadpole back then.

[Dazzler]

I WAS a young surferdude at that time.  My first year on a proper surfboard.  1962.

Similar to my situation. I was a tadpole back then.

I was a tad bigger than a tadpole...

[Doggie 1]

I was a tadpole + 4.

[FatBoy]

Way back in 1962 I don't think that my Dad even knew that there was a twinkle in his eye.

[Lester]

I miss the mulled wine.

Were you one of those underaged drinkers, like me Gonz?    I think I had my first pint of scrumpy cider in a British pub when I was about 14.

[Dazzler]

I miss the mulled wine.

Were you one of those underaged drinkers, like me Gonz?    I think I had my first pint of scrumpy cider in a British pub when I was about 14.

I was younger than that, I was breast fed   

[The Gonz]

I think I had my first Scrumpy cider on a trip to Dorset in 2001 when doing the MSc at Shrivenham. I wasn't sure the solid bits were all apple but it didn't seem to matter.