to ask your views on fireworks

[McHappyPants2012]

just because i feel that in october christmas threads are depressing

I both love and hate fireworks.

Love coz it makes me think that its really autum.

Hate as this year I have a 4 month old and some knob head setting bangers off since 6 oclock only just went off about 9ish,my little boy has been doing that little fright jump then a cry.

ALSO I really wish people would think about the old people in thier homes I live were there are 4 elderly care homes in my road,Im sure they must be scared.

i love well organised fireworks displays but i don't like fireworks when nasty children are throwing them about.

I love fireworks,i've been collecting wood for a big bonfire for a couple of weeks now, my kids will be making a guy fawkes during half term next week and i'm off to buy shitloads of fireworks tomorrow.
We'll eat burgers and toffee apples and roast chestnuts in the ashes of the bonfire.
Can't wait!

I hate them and think that they should be confined to designated days and organised displays. The general public shouldn't be allowed to buy them at all.

All events from mid October until Dec 26 are officially awesome and to be observed to the extreme chez Trotwood.

Anything else (with the exception of DCs and a few others' birthdays) gets largely ignored.

Fireworks should only be allowed on the one night of the year though. My poor dog is doing his piece just about every night at the moment. Local tossers have been letting them off up the street since about a fortnight ago.

I like them but only from behind glass. This is why I'm never keen on organised displays.

Last year we got all our friends dc round and stuck them in the conservatory to watch with hot dogs after. All done by 7pm :) We have a fair sized garden though.

After almost having a coronary at 2:50am on Sunday morning when fireworks were let off nearby, I hate them. My poor dog has to be medicated every evening from mid-October to mid-November, and then again for a week in December. No-one got any sleep after 2:50am on Sunday as he whimpered his way through the night.

Hate them they scare my little dog and my children have usually been unimpressed by them.

Don't like them for environmental reasons.

I love watching fireworks, and the city council's amazing summer display in the park is one of the highlights of our year.

However, we think it might have been a spent firework that burned our shed down last year, scaring us hugely and nearly setting fire to the neighbour's house.

Organised displays yes, in gardens, no. It's ridiculous how any idiot can go and buy quite dangerous explosives as long as they are 18 IMO.

I love fireworks, and (shoot me if you must) I especially love fireworks in the garden. In fact I prefer that to an organised display. My Dad used to bring a biscuit tin home full of fireworks on Bonfire Night and I can still remember the excitement of opening the tin to see what he had chosen.

I live next to a big park. It's like a wizards duelling ground on Hallowe'en (no 5th Nov here)

And then I get to have a lovely chat with the police, who sometimes even bother coming out! Oh, and in really good years, there might be dishy paramedics with the inevitable ambulances.

I love Hallowe'en but not that particular bit of it.