And there is no reason why gunpowder season should run thirty days on the trot.

[reddragdiva]

"WELCOME TO BAGHDAD, AND HAVE A NICE DAY!"
"WHAAAAAAAATTT?"

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[apiphile.livejournal.com]

IT IS NEVER, EVER GOING TO STOP ARGH

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

It's not quite so bad out here in the sticks. There've only been a couple of small explosions this week until today, and tonight's fun'n'games started to ease off about half an hour ago and will be mostly finished by midnight. We went to the Rotary Club public one and didn't bother with any in the backyard this year - would've been interesting, what with the ducks and the bees...

I remember Perivale... this time of year is like a return to the Blitz.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Perivale and area had Diwali as well.

In fact, November the fifth itself tended to get lost in the general festivities of a whole lot of Hindus bravely, though fruitlessly, attempting to fight back the darkness that is a British winter.

[octopusgrrl.livejournal.com]

yup. It seriously felt like our house was under attack last night, or maybe it was - I think we were the only people in the neighbourhood not wasting hundreds of dollars on things that go bang setting off fireworks. Very glad when the rain finally started about 11pm and things quietened down a bit.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I actually really like it... am I a freak?

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

No, I do too. Well, at least we can be freaks together.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I would like it if it only lasted for November 5th, or even for the whole week.

When you feel like you've been under fire for a month already, and it's not even November yet, and you know that it'll only tail off for a bit in a couple of weeks and then accelerate again in the run up to Christmas and New Year, it can be anxiety-attack inducing.

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

I got back from Baghdad in 2004, just in time for Independence Day in the US. Which sucked. I continued to be jumpy for about three months afterwards.

Fireworks really DO sound just like 10mm rockets, you know.

[vatine]

There's one variety that sounds exactly like 7.62x51, that usually makes me more worried, for some reason.

Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

....and wondered what the occasion was.

You have sympathizers in this otherwise Irish and Italian Catholic neighborhood, it seems, or people who use any excuse to set off fireworks.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[redcountess]

Now that *is* weird, considering that some people here still burn an effigy of the Pope on Bonfire Night!

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Who? I never saw anybody burn an effigy of the Pope.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[redcountess]

I haven't seen it, I just read that it's a Bonfire Night tradition that some still practice.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Probably one mad old man on a Scottish Island somewhere.

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[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

and the bonfire societies in Lewes.
http://www.needananswer.co.uk/lewes-fireworks-2005.html

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

How are the kitaens handling it?

[redcountess]

They largely ignored it, except for a few of the bigger bangs, but we kept them inside all night.

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

but I like it

[lolliepopp.livejournal.com]

don't fret, I do too. Fireworks are fantastic!

Went up to the bridge near the station here in E10 and watched Canary Wharf explode, then got back just in time to watch the neighbours set fire the fence with a badly positioned catherine wheel.

Tis the problem with terraced east end houses and explosives.

No-one was hurt and I got some great photos.

L
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[redcountess]

Don't get me wrong, so do I - it's just when you have it every night for nearly two months it gets a bit wearing.

At the old flat, we were on the first floor, and NYE the year before last was fantastic to watch.