Effing fireworks.

Yep, detest them, and right this minute they are going off, setting our security dog off barking! Cats are watching them out of the window, hopefully won’t last long

They're at it again here tonight so I've just made sure the old stray Tom is in his kennel and not wandering.

What sounds like a bomb has just gone off. Hard to see the entertainment value of such things.

There has been a petition about banning the use of fireworks except in displays and on November 5th. No idea if the debate mentioned below will be taking place given the current situation with lockdown. It is worth writing to your MP if you want to express your concerns.

PETITION UPDATE
Parliamentary DEBATE 2nd Nov 2020
Good news. Last years petition will be debated at last. It was stopped because of the elections but had reached 305,579 in a matter of weeks.

Please write to your MP with your feelings on fireworks ahead of the debate in a weeks time. Writetothem.com is the easiest way.

Please also sign our 2020 petition which will support the debate and maybe even get it's own debate next year.

At least Sainsburys not selling but sadly aldi and Lidl are. We normally have a public display in our small town but fearful this year folk will have in their own gardens. I feel sorry for the animals and humans who are upset. I am always amazed how much money must still be sloshing around to be wasted in bangs as unemployment here is high anyway without added COVID problems.

I love fireworks! Not at anytime but for Nov5 /Divali/NYE.

I enjoy a good display, organised or in the garden. I love the swooshing and whooshing, less keen on the explosive bangs though.

All the local community boards will be alive with the for and against arguments... yawn! I do appreciate that some animals find the explosions upsetting but this is, for me, Nov 5 is a lovely family tradition.

Started here tonight FGS I thought it was Halloween not Bonfire Night.

I’ll not be as restrained in my language as OP.
That poor frantic hyperventilating dog ?????

They are lovely, PECS in an organised display, we've seen some wonderful ones.
I love a sparkler too!

But random fireworks, just set off each night between now and NYD, are annoying.

There are times (NOW) when I wish I lived miles and miles from anybody! John o Groats would be my perfect location tonight.
How can Poor Hattie take (at least) another week of this?
Before anyone suggests calming remedies- I’ve tried them all -all at once too!

Many years ago when my children were little we gave up on garden bonfires and fireworks and went to an organised display by the local council. Middle son was only second son at the time and some idiots let off a rocket along the ground less than a foot from my son's buggy. We about turned and went home. The other two weren't happy but I banned fireworks after that. A few seconds earlier and that firework would have hit my son. I was never flavour of the month when my children were growing up but it was such a scary moment I vowed never to put any of them in that sort of danger again. I still hate fireworks even although they've all grown up safely and have moved on in their adult lives.

Silent fireworks are the way forward.

Namsnanny That's exactly what was done for my late sister-in-law last year at her request.
After a party in her memory her ashes were put into a special rocket and fired from the top of the hill overlooking the village where she had lived all of her life

Aepgirl

Silent fireworks are the way forward.

Actually I think they should be banned from sale to the public, as they are in other countries.

I have no objection to fireworks as long as they don’t sound like a nuclear explosion. They have been going off every evening here for the last two weeks. My poor cats are developing PTSD.

My personal opinion is that they should only be allowed in organised displays (without the ‘bombs’!) and the organiser should be trained and licensed. They are, after all, dealing with explosives.

PECS I love them too, always have done. I don’t remember, years ago, there being so many objections?

I think that, years ago, they were let off on 5th November and possibly NYE.

Jaxjacky I guess when I was a kid there was no social media. The dog was often in a kennel outside and not as pampered as many pets are now.. so maybe more robust? Also far fewer dogs around generally.

So combo of increased firework use over prolonged periods and growth of dog ownership means the argument has grown !

Dogs in a kennel outside? Not where I grew up.

I loved fireworks.

On November 5th.

Not Halloween. Not on the Saturday/Sunday, before/after Halloween.

Not at Christmas

Not at NYE

I have a 7 year old JR who is still trembling after an onslaught this evening

Cold, wet Halloween

People are quite inane at times

I have hugely happy memories of playing with fireworks, especially bangers, when I was a child. One could buy small, very narrow ones, about the diameter of a pencil, complete with a reinforced end (much like a real detonator) - which were ideal for inserting into large field mushrooms or dried piles of cow poo, and blowing them to smithereens. When not committing fungicide and pooicide, we would decant the explosive powder into lengths of copper tubing stopped at one end and with a small touch-hole bored through - and fire marbles for miles! I say miles, because we never subsequently found any of the marbles afterwards... My most vivid memory of that period was the "Atomic Bomb" firework my father bought in Inverness and produced as a surprise to mark the finale of our family bonfire night - on an evening which was clear, calm and cold. I was permitted to light the blue touch paper and retire. After a bit of spluttering, the very expensive "Bomb" belched a few sparks and then appeared to go out. Just as Dad was contemplating the chances of getting a refund, his prize purchase shot a single projectile several hundred feet into the air before bursting in a blaze of stars which lit up the countryside below. The bang - or should I say BANG - reached ground level shortly afterwards, and it was by far the loudest noise I had ever heard. There followed a short period of awed silence, before the air was filled with the noise of hooves and trotters as every bit of livestock for miles around stampeded! Given that record, I find it difficult in my dotage to criticise others' pyrotechnic indiscretions.

Does anyone remember jumping jacks?

The boys would throw them and they moved around, making you jump out of the way.

Jaxjackie and Callistemon, the bangers around when I was growing up, were nowhere near as noisy as some of the current ones.

They weren't Tweedle, as far as I remember.

-------waiting for the 11pm depth charge before I can go to bed.

I can remember a jumping back following me into the kitchen and my mum saying get out and take that thing with you .I think it's sad that children of today can't have the same bonfire night's that we had even potatoes cooked in bonfire which were burnt on outside and cold in middle ?

Our lodger cat went missing last year around fireworks time after loads of notes dropped through letterboxes the last road I tried turned up trumps as one thinner ginger Tom with No nails and bedraggled appeared who was covered in cobwebs which looks like his diet for a week My other cat went loopy on Feliway.