To want to buy a few fireworks?

[Motherdare]

I can’t find any anywhere! What’s happened? Has Bonfire Night been cancelled? I loved it as a child. I just want to get a few sparklers and Roman candles, some traffic lights and fizz pops. I’m not looking for a significant amount of gunpowder - not trying to frighten people’s pets. I don’t want to attend a public display. They’re too crowded and loud. I just want a little party in my garden with parkin and toffee apples.

Where are all the fireworks??

All the organised displays around my area have been fully booked for weeks. There’s only about two or three, some have decided not to hold them due to Covid.

I thought we were in a climate crisis and yet we are still selling fireworks which pollute the very air we breathe.

I'm glad people are struggling to get fireworks. They've been going off around where I live for the past 3 weeks, constantly through the evening into the early hours. My dd is terrified, and gets woken up constantly through the night.
If they were just one day as other posters have said, then cool. Everyone go crazy. But it isn't just one day.

People happily have massive noisy ugly motorways instead of good public transport or shopping centres selling useless crap blighting the landscape permanently but some pretty colours in the sky a couple of times a year is an absolute outrage because someone’s dog will be inconvenienced for a few seconds.

@girlmom21

Asda and Aldi are selling them but it's cheaper and safer to go to an organised display.

It's certainly not cheaper. Where I live its £10 per adult and £5 for kids so £30 for a family of four and then the kids will want sparklers, toffee apples, hog dogs etc....

@GreenTeaBlackCoffeeAndRedWine

Goodness, it's one day of the year. Come on people. By that logic they should stop selling anything that could frighten people. Clown costumes, balloons, etc.

Aldi had some last year. I'm sure they did

If ONLY it were only one day a year, though!

but some pretty colours in the sky a couple of times a year is an absolute outrage because someone’s dog will be inconvenienced for a few seconds.

A couple of times a year? Nope. Try weeks, months, for every bloody occasion. Inconvenienced, nope, try traumatised. A few seconds? Ha fucking ha.

@Franklyfrost

People happily have massive noisy ugly motorways instead of good public transport or shopping centres selling useless crap blighting the landscape permanently but some pretty colours in the sky a couple of times a year is an absolute outrage because someone’s dog will be inconvenienced for a few seconds.

And the elderly, veterans, those with PTSD, the wildlife that inevitably die every year because it gives ALL kinds of animals heart attacks, they choke on the plastic debris left behind etc.....

But sure. It's all about it being inconvenient for someone's pet dog.

Sparkler I don't mind as long as they are controlled like tobacco/alcohol to be bought by adults only (because they are a fire and burn risk) but everything else that's explosive should be banned and bloody good you can't find them it means we're moving in the right direction.

It's utterly insane that you can legally buy a bomb in Asda.

@Motherdare

I can’t find any anywhere! What’s happened? Has Bonfire Night been cancelled? I loved it as a child. I just want to get a few sparklers and Roman candles, some traffic lights and fizz pops. I’m not looking for a significant amount of gunpowder - not trying to frighten people’s pets. I don’t want to attend a public display. They’re too crowded and loud. I just want a little party in my garden with parkin and toffee apples.

Where are all the fireworks??

Depending on the area you live in the focus for fireworks shops (and suppliers) is almost always the Diwali period. It’s very difficult and expensive to source fireworks after this. But try suppliers like Blackcat online (they are the ones who supply lidl).

@Franklyfrost

As others have pointed out on multiple posts, it's not just a few seconds, it's not just a couple of times a year , and dogs being terrified, in some cases leading to them running off or having heart attacks, is not being inconvenienced.

It's not just dogs - it's other wildlife and domestic animals, and it's not just animals - people are affected too.

Perhaps if it was only a couple of nights a year and only for a few seconds, people wouldn't now be campaigning for a ban on the sale of fireworks to the general (idiotic) public.

I thought you could get some that didn't make a bang and hopefully are less negative on the environment. The cause a serious decrease in air quality.

We’ve got some for tonight, I got them in Asda this morning. I would happily take DD to an organised display, but there are two in our whole county, and they are ticketed for people with local postcodes so we can’t go. We have sparklers, a couple of Roman candle type things that don’t make a noise and a couple of bigger ones that I don’t know we’ll even do, but they came in a pack.

People happily have massive noisy ugly motorways instead of good public transport or shopping centres selling useless crap blighting the landscape permanently but some pretty colours in the sky a couple of times a year is an absolute outrage because someone’s dog will be inconvenienced for a few seconds

Talk about whataboutery.

Also, there are always pretty colours in the sky. The blue, the stars, the moon, the sunset and sunrise, the birds. Why not enjoy those?

@Rainywindoww

Fireworks are awful and should be completely banned for sale to everyone apart from big displays.

Well done Sainsburys for stopping selling them!

Agreed!

@Crinkle77 most organised displays don't sell sprinklers anymore because of health and safety.

Even if you spend £50 on a family night out (cheaper displays will be available at scout huts etc), you're not spending any less than you would on decent fireworks and some tea at home.

The atmosphere at events is loads better too.

Pretty sure plenty of "the elderly" like fireworks too. And pets are terribly bad for the environment if we are going there...

@EggsellentSmithers - why not go and find a spot nearby if you can't get into the display itself? You'll still be able to enjoy the fireworks from a viewing point nearby.

Good.
My dog has been petrified the last two nights because of fireworks, and it’s going to go on all weekend 😡

[quote Notahandmaid]@Franklyfrost

As others have pointed out on multiple posts, it's not just a few seconds, it's not just a couple of times a year , and dogs being terrified, in some cases leading to them running off or having heart attacks, is not being inconvenienced.

It's not just dogs - it's other wildlife and domestic animals, and it's not just animals - people are affected too.

Perhaps if it was only a couple of nights a year and only for a few seconds, people wouldn't now be campaigning for a ban on the sale of fireworks to the general (idiotic) public.[/quote]
This!!

But it's ok, war vets, elderly people, those with heart conditions, the disabled and vulnerable with severe emotional and sensory issues and people who have PTSD can just put up and shut up between September and (almost) February, so a few twats can hear their bangs and see the pretty lights.

Seriously. Some of the people on this thread live in a privileged little bubble of a perfect life.

@Porcupineintherought - yes, probably lots of older people do enjoy them. But the issue is that it's not just one night of the year for half an hour now.

@GreenTeaBlackCoffeeAndRedWine

Goodness, it's one day of the year. Come on people. By that logic they should stop selling anything that could frighten people. Clown costumes, balloons, etc.

Aldi had some last year. I'm sure they did

Dogs have died from fright/bolting into traffic because of them. Other animals have died from them too.

Yes @hennaoj - agree

This happened last year:

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/keepers-devastated-after-fireworks-believed-4687517

I don't like animals being kept in zoos or wildlife parks to start off with but this was an awful story.

Tesco had a little firework kiosk at the front of thee store this morning.