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Bonfire night - is it just me who hates it?

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sweetkitty · 02/11/2004 23:16

Well I don't hate it on principle it's the fact that for 2 weeks either side every night you have to listen to fireworks going off all night!

It's like living in a war zone round here most nights. Even during the day kids are letting fireworks off, I saw one lad let a firework off in a phonebox at lunchtime. Where do kids get the money to buy them they cost a fortune?

I would vote for only organised firework displays on the 5th of November!

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KateandtheGirls · 05/11/2004 15:45

Mulled wine???? Mmm....

Maybe I should start celebrating Bonfire Night here...

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sweetkitty · 05/11/2004 16:15

they've started here already across the river and it's not even dark yet!!

and Barclaycard have just phoned and woke up DD

and Hotpoint have said they can't get an engineer to come and look at my broken washing machine for 2 weeks I've paid the extra money for a warranty as well, looks like it's a trip to the dreaded laundrette for me tomorrow - not good not having a washing machine with a 3 month old baby!!

if I wasn't BF I would be forced to get very drunk this evening!!

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fee77 · 05/11/2004 19:32

Oh my god it sounds like a war zone - how will i get my baby to sleep?
I am definately for organised displays - there is supposed to be one at the end of the road but it doesn't stop my stupid neighbours having their private ones. The family behind had a bonfire sooo big i almost called the fire brigade as i thought their house was on fire.
And just so add, there were yobs who played with fireworks around 20 years - some one put a lit one in DH cousins pocket - nasty. I think the problem is they aren't that expensive to some people, and i know the man at the end of the road sells them to any tom dick or harry.
Rant over!!!

smileyragdoll · 05/11/2004 19:35

not liking them tonight ds 15 wks cant get to sleep with all the banging

bubsylocket · 06/11/2004 09:34

How on earth did all you mum's cope last night- fortunately I kept my dd from having her afternoon sleep so went to bed at 7.30 only to be woken at 10pm and again some b**y idiot let one off at 1am so we were awake again. They were everywhere around my house last night - front and back so let's just hope that after tonight - they will stop - NOT !!!! roll on Xmas !!!!

wobblyknicks · 06/11/2004 09:38

bubsy - I'm ready to kill this morning!!! DD took 2 hours last night to get to sleep and THEN woke up at 1ish, 3ish, and 4ish (when she took an hour to go back to sleep - and she very rarely wakes at all in the night. Don't think there were firworks going off then but they were when she went to sleep so I blame it on them - either because she couldn't get to sleep easily so woke easily or because she probably had nightmares about the ruddy noise!! Can't wait until the whole lot is over for another year.

tex111 · 06/11/2004 09:49

I haven't read the whole thread but we had the same thing last night. Fireworks going off at midnight and not just a couple. It sounded like they were doing a whole show in front of our house. Aren't there laws about where and when you can set them off? Surely midnight is considered unsociable hours for such noise.

In Texas you can't set them off within city limits and you can only buy them up to a certain size so the big ones are only used for professional displays. Surely that would be more sensible and much safer.

This is the first year they've been a real problem for us but I would definitely sign a petition, get DH to vote for, etc anyone trying to change the law to control their use.

tex111 · 06/11/2004 09:54

Just read back through the thread and see that you've already discussed laws about banning them. And the police can issue fines! I'll remember that next year when they're setting them off at midnight.

hercules · 06/11/2004 20:36

Bloody neighbours two houses down have just started.

And people opposite

another sleepless night for dd crying.

hercules · 06/11/2004 20:36

Why cant they at least go to each others and save one sodding racket.

Gobbledigook · 06/11/2004 20:41

With you! DS3 is normally asleep for the night by 7pm but I just can't get him to go down. It's like bloody WWIII out there.

hercules · 06/11/2004 20:45

Dd was asleep at 6.15 thankfully.

I have just seen a huge fire from my upstairs window in a neighbours back garden. We live in a residential, closely built together area. THe fire is huge!

THat has got to be the most irresponsible thing I have ever seen.

Why would you want a huge fire in your small garden. The flames are half the height of the 3 storey house.

No wonder the fire dept despair.

There are loads of organised do's as well very near by.

Gobbledigook · 06/11/2004 20:52

I'd never do my own fire or fireworks - far too risky. Really should be just organised displays. I cannot understand why that is not is not made 'law' if you like - surely it would make the whole event much safer for everyone.

MarsLady · 06/11/2004 20:55

twins awake . time to use my cell in holloway prison coz I'm gonna take some one out tonight, and believe me I'm not talking date

Gobbledigook · 06/11/2004 20:56

Oh no Marslady - how annoying is it.

DS3 has finally gone to sleep I THINK. About time too!

leglebegle · 06/11/2004 20:57

No. I bloody hate it. I am sitting in somewhere resembling Kosovo as we speak. Can't believe it lasts 2 weeks round here. Baby won't sleep. Toddler really scared. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

Gobbledigook · 06/11/2004 21:00

I know - people kept asking ds1 (3.5) if he was going out to a bonfire! The fireworks would scare him stupid, not to mention ds2 who is only 2!!

Couldn't really go out with ds3 at 10 weeks anyway! That's my excuse when I'm made to feel like mean mummy!

Bozza · 06/11/2004 21:06

Well I expect DD to be up 3 times in the night but not because of the fireworks - just because thats the way she is. Took DS and DD to a firework display tonight and she slept through the entire proceedings. DS OTOH loved it and still remembers last years - he's only 3.

alibo · 06/11/2004 21:17

don't mind bonfire night, etc, but wish fireworks were just at organised bonfires, not in peoples back gardens all night. Bangers were going off near us, from 6pm till nearly midnight. ds woke up crying at about 9.30pm, but fortunatly managed to get back to sleep. also the poor rabbit nearly had heart failure!!

mckenzie · 06/11/2004 22:12

I really want to go to bed as I'm soooooo tired after the fireworks last night kept us away until gone 12.30! But no, they are still going off now and they are just too loud. DS, normally a great sleeper who probably wouldn't wake if you lit a firework next to his bed, has such a terrible cough and cold that he's not in a deep sleep and everytime he coughs he seems to stir and then of course, he hears all the loud bangs and gets even more restless.
This time next year I am going to make sure that we are out of the country.
I HATE FIREWORKS!!!!!!!

OldieMum · 06/11/2004 22:19

I always loved it as a child, but DH is ambivalent. He is a (lapsed) Catholic from Australia (and so never celebrated it as a child)and feels uncomfortable about what it symbolises. He drew my attention to the way they celebrate it in parts of Sussex, burning effigies of the Pope etc. We'll give DD a sanitised account of it (along with the sparklers) when she's old enough to take an interest!

bubsylocket · 07/11/2004 20:19

let's just say that again my dd is yet again having another interrupted night !! You mums are not going to believe what landed in my garden last night - in the middle of a lawn a firework landed standing at 4ft tall (vertical) and has speared right through our lawn !!! I can honestly say that it has got to be a professional display one. My dh and I were saying that if we were stupid and annoying enough to have had a display ourselves and he was bending over lighting one - the one that landed in our garden could have killed him - I am discussed that these things are being sold !!!

janeybops · 07/11/2004 20:28

I would love it if it were just organised displays on the 5th Nov only. There were still some going off at midnight last night and the night before!

However, this is just the lull before the storm of Divali next week. The noise is unbeleivable aorund here - they seem to go for this over light show effects. Last year we couldn't hear the tv at normal level for over an HOUR!!!!!!

This is an escalllation (sp) as we have lived in this area since 1991 and it has never been that lud before. Just wondering what it will be like next week?

MrsBigD · 12/11/2004 12:13

well, Diwali has started and so have our sleepless nights... dd is scared stiff of the noise and whenever she manages to drift off one of those bl*y super crackers go off. According to my neighbour a lot of the stuff isn't even licensed but home made!

Sickboy · 12/11/2004 23:29

I'm so bored with this. Isn't there supposed to be an 11pm curfew or something?

I thought Diwali was the Festival Of Light, not the Festival Of Loud, Intermittent Explosions.

I'm feeling distinctly non-multicultural at the moment.