Spent fireworks ...

Elfblossom · 2023-10-25T00:59:30+00:00

Last year, on bonfire weekend, my neighbours set off a good few fireworks in their back garden. I was a little irked that they chose 'lift off' to be right next to our shared fence (rather than next to the bottom fence which back onto a sealed off strip of waste ground). Also frustrating was me having to go round my garden picking up the 30+ firework remnants the next day. Other neighbours in the cul-de-sac let off fireworks too and there were 10ish I spotted and eventually picked up - they're big too! Foot long sticks most of them. To note, if they knocked & said 'your garden's covered in our fireworks, is it okay to pop round and remove them?' I'd probably say 'it's fine, I'll pick them up and drop the bag round for you to pop in your bin' (I'm sure some will think that petty but our wheelie bins are tiny! & only emptied every other week... I need all the room I have. so ... AIBU To expect people to pick up their own firework remnants?

hoobanoobie · 25/10/2023 02:32

Yep, last year I had to pick up all the bits of cardboard that landed in my back garden as per. Next door get the loudest fireworks they possibly can and it honestly sounds like a war zone.
I have to keep 7 cats inside, bring my two ferrets in and continue to hope that the rabbits and guinea pigs are very accustomed to this by now after 8 years of this. I do fill both hutches with hay and go outside talking to them several times (with treats) to reassure them every year.
My daughter did get a good laugh last year. There was something hanging from the gutter above my bedroom window. I thought it was a bat and was fully prepared to coax it towards me and take care of it. Nope, it was an oddly hanging piece of cardboard from next doors firewo

hoobanoobie · 25/10/2023 02:33

hoobanoobie · 25/10/2023 02:32

Yep, last year I had to pick up all the bits of cardboard that landed in my back garden as per. Next door get the loudest fireworks they possibly can and it honestly sounds like a war zone.
I have to keep 7 cats inside, bring my two ferrets in and continue to hope that the rabbits and guinea pigs are very accustomed to this by now after 8 years of this. I do fill both hutches with hay and go outside talking to them several times (with treats) to reassure them every year.
My daughter did get a good laugh last year. There was something hanging from the gutter above my bedroom window. I thought it was a bat and was fully prepared to coax it towards me and take care of it. Nope, it was an oddly hanging piece of cardboard from next doors firewo

from next doors rockets. I got better glasses after that

ACGTHelix · 25/10/2023 02:34

Part of the issue is they could land anywhere nearby, so unless you went garden by garden then it adds up time wise

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Elfblossom · 26/10/2023 00:17

hoobanoobie · 25/10/2023 02:32

Yep, last year I had to pick up all the bits of cardboard that landed in my back garden as per. Next door get the loudest fireworks they possibly can and it honestly sounds like a war zone.
I have to keep 7 cats inside, bring my two ferrets in and continue to hope that the rabbits and guinea pigs are very accustomed to this by now after 8 years of this. I do fill both hutches with hay and go outside talking to them several times (with treats) to reassure them every year.
My daughter did get a good laugh last year. There was something hanging from the gutter above my bedroom window. I thought it was a bat and was fully prepared to coax it towards me and take care of it. Nope, it was an oddly hanging piece of cardboard from next doors firewo

Oh gawd! That would definitely be me too! I'd be so disappointed that it wasn't a bat!

I have cats too (and a geriatric Guinea pig) who used to be out in the day if they wanted to but since moving here and being warned that the old man next door has been putting poison in food out for years, I've kept them in permanently.

Only one objects but she's highly allergic to many varieties of trees, grasses and certain weeds ... and horses and tomatoes! So she's better off indoors.

Hope your pet family all cope okay ❤️

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Elfblossom · 26/10/2023 00:21

ACGTHelix · 25/10/2023 02:34

Part of the issue is they could land anywhere nearby, so unless you went garden by garden then it adds up time wise

Sort of but, we're in a cul-de-sac and the remain are there for everyone to see.

My direct next door neighbour must know or just not care that all theor firework rubbish is coming my way.

When I was out pruning the shrubs by my front gate recently, I cleared up the mess off the floor, I didn't just leave it.

Is it not a similar thing? You create the mess, you clean it up?

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ACGTHelix · 26/10/2023 01:08

Elfblossom · 26/10/2023 00:21

Sort of but, we're in a cul-de-sac and the remain are there for everyone to see.

My direct next door neighbour must know or just not care that all theor firework rubbish is coming my way.

When I was out pruning the shrubs by my front gate recently, I cleared up the mess off the floor, I didn't just leave it.

Is it not a similar thing? You create the mess, you clean it up?

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i agree, but then just having watched a mission report, can people be sure where they think the rocket debre would land or do they think its far away after blast off ?

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Elfblossom · 26/10/2023 08:08

ACGTHelix · 26/10/2023 01:08

i agree, but then just having watched a mission report, can people be sure where they think the rocket debre would land or do they think its far away after blast off ?

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I mean ... you can't miss it really! Maybe not in my garden unless they look out the upstairs windows - then it will be! But, in the cul-de-sac, absolutely!

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