Fireworks

[wurzel]

Anyone having a bonfire night party this year? I do love it, me when I get the chance to have one. Got kids coming this year so won't be able to do my human Roman Candle trick but hoping there's still loads of loud ones on the market.

Can't believe they've banned bangers though. Surely there can't be too many people like me who like sticking then in old ladies' dustbins? Another one that got banned was the one that hopped along the ground - Jumping Jack I think it was called. Apparently it used to hop into peoples' wellies so they banned it.

At a bit of a loose end with the guy this year. Normally I make an effigy of somebody deeply unpopular so I've been spoilt for choice over the last few years. I've had Blair and Brown a few times & last time I had a female guy. Hazel Blears. Any suggestions for this year?

Then, of course, there's the food. Normally some kind of bean/sausage stew with loads of smoked paprika & baked potatoes cooked in the bonfire. Only thing I can't do anymore is penny for the guy. Somone called the police last time I did that. Miserable sods.

[MarillionFan]

My other half turns the house into the halloween house where everyone elses halloween house looks tulip by comparison.

I love spending £100 on halloween decorations at this time of the year :

[Zippy]

My other half turns the house into the halloween house where everyone elses halloween house looks tulip by comparison.

I love spending £100 on halloween decorations at this time of the year :

Don't you get it back when you pimp them out Trick-or-Treating?

[Troll]

Some twat has just had an amazing firework display down the road - must have cost a few bob

I wonder if any of the local imports are celebrating any of the following:

• Belgrade Day Serbia
• Kenyatta Day Kenya
• Revolution Day Guatemala
• Birth of the Bab Baha'i

[shaunbhoy]

Some twat has just had an amazing firework display down the road - must have cost a few bob

I wonder if any of the local imports are celebrating any of the following:

• Belgrade Day Serbia
• Kenyatta Day Kenya
• Revolution Day Guatemala
• Birth of the Bab Baha'i

Why not take a bottle and some nibbles round, knock on their doors and find out Troll? I am sure you can be quite charming when you extinguish that burning crucifix of yours and remove the pillowcase from over your head!!

[gricerboy]

Somone called the police last time I did that. Miserable sods.

And quite right too. Technically you were committing the offence of hawking. As for trick or treaters, that's tantamount to extortion and I never hesitate to call the authorities when I'm doorstepped by a group of teenagers.

Regarding your comments vis a vis the insertion of bangers in old ladies' dustbins, you should be ashamed of yourself. I know how terrifying it can be to have uncouth ruffians launch explosive projectiles at me from being out on my recumbent at this time of year. Shameful.

[Zippy]

And quite right too. Technically you were committing the offence of hawking. As for trick or treaters, that's tantamount to extortion and I never hesitate to call the authorities when I'm doorstepped by a group of teenagers.

Regarding your comments vis a vis the insertion of bangers in old ladies' dustbins, you should be ashamed of yourself. I know how terrifying it can be to have uncouth ruffians launch explosive projectiles at me from being out on my recumbent at this time of year. Shameful.

At Zip Towers we make sure the Ex-Lax laced 'chocolates' and super heated small change are to hand when the little chreubs call round. It also works on the energy company salespeople.

[d000hg]

We don't do halloween, but now we live in a middle class neighborhood you never see any children anyway... ironically when we lived in a poor mining village where every 2nd house was DSS, everyone was out having fun.

Sadly we've no garden though, only a little yard with houses on all sides, and the likelyhood of burning them down.
Shame, I've fond memories from childhood, we always had a big bonfire as we had a big garden with lots of trees, and always had a BBQ standing in the freezing cold. Maybe we'll have BBQ and mulled wine but no fireworks...