To start the 'fireworks should be banned' in September?

[Iamsparklyknickers]

Having just heard my first load of ear piercing rockets of the season?

Poor cats have just hot footed it in like they're in the middle of the blitz!

I love a good display,but I hate the amateur ones that just seem to be about the noise, let off at any old time from early evening till after midnight, have no restrictions about how far away from houses they should be let off (our gardens are like shoe boxes and it's a very densely populated area).

This won't finish till after new year now, although there was someone nearby who was still partial to them after the clocks changed in the spring and it was still light

uncanny

i can hear fireworks too

Thankfully fireworks are banned here except for properly organised and policed displays which are far and few between.

Fireworks are supposedly illegal here (Ireland) unless you obtain a licence for public events or somesuch. This year I heard the first one in the last week of August. I expect to hear the last in mid- November. Humph.

I don't know if Yabu or not, me and DP love fireworks and we use them before and after bonfire night. However we are very careful, we have a big garden and we don't do it late at night.

I think it's fine to use fireworks whenever you want but you should be considerate in your use.

Oh God, I expect I'll start hearing them too. I also love the big public displays, but think they should be banned from general sale.

Bureni- I take it you are not in Ireland then!:)

Where are you bureni? What are the house prices like

YABU. I love them. But I don't live somewhere where people are inconsiderate enough to let them off late(except NYE and Bonfire night of course) so perhaps I would feel differently if I did

I hate loud bangs .
I don't mind the whooshy ones.

We have never done fireworks at ome, or taken the dcs to a display either. Just doesn't excite me.

dreading bf night ds2 hates em crys hours on end

Hate them and so does my autistic child, the elderly, and animals.. i dont mind organised in a park but not in streets and gardens. one place we lived in yobs bought them and put them through elderly neighbours letter box, gave the poor guy a heart attack and he didnt survive. of course the yobs got off with light slapped wrists..whole street was livid.thankfully we moved (so did a few people cos the yobs didnt move) but dont know what itll be like round here, weve only been here seince feb. fireworks are bloody dangerous and shouldnt be sold to all and sundry. there are age limits on fags and alcohol so why not these? rant rant!!as i said, fine in a field, an organised display at the time (nov 5th and new year) but not any other time.

Marjproops - there is an age limit on fireworks. It's 18. But like cigs/alcohol teens will get hold of them.

My currant dogs don't mind them but my old dog used to be terrified for hours and it was distressing to watch.

The large displays give people time to prepare kids/animals. We used to turn up radios and TVs and create a den for her but people letting them off all the time makes it hard.

Are we all in the same place?!? Fireworks were just going off here too!!

Fireworks here too tonight.

They were going off last night too. I bloody hate fireworks, and wish it was illegal to sell them.

Bloody love fireworks!

Wondering if anyone on this thread is living in east london....

Also been hearing fireworks

Anyone mentioned drug dealers yet?

Not in London. They scare the pants off me! I'd never have anything to do with them unless I'm at an organised display.

I hate fireworks, really wish they were limited to organised displays only.

If any of those who can hear fireworks tonight are near southport they have their big fireworks competition thingy tonight I believe.

since am roughly half way between southport and east london, maybe i can hear both?

We live near to a wedding venue and they're always letting really loud fireworks off. The dog hates it and takes ages to settle down when they've had a display (which is at least once a week). I wish there was a law that made people use the noiseless ones except for Bonfire Night and New Year.

Lol Unchartered

Yep Lara, I'm in East London!

Ooooh interesting!!well they had some sort of festival/fair thing round by the excel/Victoria dock tonight, which ended in a pretty extravagant firework display