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Originally Posted by Picidae  The laws now confining them to be used before 11.00pm and 12.00 on the 5/11 has made a difference as had the price of them. |
Not round this way it hasn't!
It's now after 11:00pm and I can still hear the wretched things going off: the other morning I heard some distant bangs at after 2:00am!! Don't you just love drunks with fireworks?
Pity they don't blow 'emselves up - that'd teach them!
I remember when I was a child how we were all reminded to keep pets indoors on 5th November. Impossible now when not only do we have to put up with fireworks from mid-October when they go on sale in the supermarkets until after 5th/6th/7th/8th November, but again at Christmas, and New Year, and when the local "Festival" takes place in July, and when some team or other wins at football, and when it's Great Uncle Fred's Birthday and for someone's wedding and.... Bah, humbug!!!
I have long been of the belief that fireworks should be banned from sale to the general public and only supplied for properly organised, licensed and insured official displays, then only (if we must!) for 5th November or the nearest Saturday to that date.
It was the Millennium that started this silly fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve lark and unfortunately someone decided it would be a good money-making wheeze to do it every year. We used to always get to bed early on 31st December so we could be up and out by about 4 or 5 to go off for a day's "New Year Listing" birding in North Norfolk. Now, with the noise equivalent of a major war breaking out at midnight and continuing with random explosions until at least 3:00am we no are longer fit or awake enough to travel...
I suppose it's just another sign of our selfish society that very few people seem to care one jot for wildlife, pets, livestock or sleeping babies. Either that or age has just made me into a proper Grumpy!
