General Chat

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For 6 days, fireworks have been going off from about 6:30 until 8 ish.
Tonight they started at 5:30 - and are still going on - albeit not in such density.
I phoned my sister at 9:00pm - usually I phone her at about 7:30pm, but I couldn't hear the TV,(on full volume) let alone make a phone call.
There was a lull at 9:00pm, I called her - but had to end the call, as they started up again , and I couldn't hear her. :-| She could hear them, despite all doors, windows being closed.

I live on a hill on an estate. Those living lower down set off their fireworks, and they explode level with my house :-(
The noise is intensified by it ricocheting off the houses along the street.
I end up with about £50 worth of dead fireworks in my garden - one year I had 3 rockets in my pond, and a few dead fish.
I'm just glad for the rain we've had over the past 5 days - at least my shed has a chance of not being burnt down.

I managed to feed 2 of my cats, but the third came down from hiding in my bedroom, only for a distant bang to happen - and she was upstairs again like a rocket.
I let one out for a pee - only for another 'random' explosion to take place, luckily I'd left the kitchen door open for him to make a quick return from outside.

It is now 11:55, it isn't November 5th - and they're still going off.

..but hey, it's their 'right', it's a free country!! S*d anyone else.

Midnight will bring Remembrance Sunday. What a lovely tribute to our dead, injured, maimed, and PTSD soldiers - 'here mate - do you remember this noise'

It's been the same here. More fireworks tonight than there was on Thursday. It has only just quietened down but there is still the odd very loud bang every now and then. Some of them sound like bombs going off!!

Kath. x

It's awful, isn't it.
At least I can cast off any guilt I may feel using my electric hedge trimmer or chainsaw! I usually stop after an hour, and only use it at 'reasonable' hours :-D
So anyone wishing to complain, who set off fireworks - &%$£&&&

Edit - another 'depth charge' at 00:29, that vibrated the window :-|
Edit - another couple at 00:54 and 0057 - and no, I can't report them as I don't know where it came from!!! .....and isn't it their 'right' ?
I really would like to go to bed.......

This year does seem to have been particularly bad. I quite like a good organised firework display and there is one on the field at the end of our little cul de sac, starting at 6 pm and finishing early. That was last night and even that was extra loud this year. But there seem to have been a lot of random parties this year, including one that was letting off very loud bangers at 1 am. And we live in a quiet area of town!

Its not been to bad near us Friday night there was a firework & bonfire party .other side of the village .Saturday was the worst rockets going off near a farm .but they finished about ten .were we use to live fireworks going off for weeks before & near our house it was awful Hope you have seen the last of them Maggie . :-)

Day 7 - or probably 8.
17:30 started again :-|

We have had them for a week (up until last night).

It seems everything gets dragged out, Easter, Halloween and Christmas included.

As we are on one side of the valley the noise reverberates around so we can't not hear those being 'enjoyed' across the other side :-(

Maggie - next year you could consider making a bit on the side. Rent out chairs in the best viewing room + sell homemade soup or snacks ;-)

TBH fireworks don't bother us, not that we live in an elevated location or echo chamber. There have been the normal bangs and crackles, but none of the window rattling booms of previous years.

They started up here again about 6.30. I don't normally mind fireworks but, like Maggie, I think this year's are particularly noisy and never ending and they do seem inappropriate for Remembrance Sunday........or perhaps I am just a grumpy old woman.

It was pouring down here last night so I'm guessing some parties were postponed.

Fireworks just started again :-|

It's the people with birthdays around the 5th Nov like my dau that are the main problem.

Dau not keen on them.

The whole estate must have birthdays around Nov. 5th!!!! :-|

ooh lovely another firework thread.

Look at them go.

whoosh.

Oh yes, Errol, soldiers fought for our freedom.
Shame they have to be reminded of what they went through for over 7 days on the trot, and on Remembrance Sunday as well - not so much a case of 'We will not forget', more a case of 'remember this?'
But it's everyone's RIGHT to let off explosives in their garden's isn't it?
Soldiers fought for it.
Don't forget it was Governments that sent them to war - those who sit in the same place Guy Fawkes tried to destroy.
As Harry Patch said:
"politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.”

They don't really understand why they are allowed to set off fireworks, do they?, It's nothing to do with Guy Fawkes, otherwise Catholics wouldn't set them off. Have you noticed how 'Guy Fawkes Night', has become 'Fireworks Week'? :-(
From your responses, probably not.

It must be so nice for you to be living in a nice quiet area. Enjoy your smugness.

Edit: 23:42, another load of whizz bangs....

It would be a funny old world if we regularly banned things merely on the offchance that they may or may not upset/offend etc etc

I live in Plumstead SE London. We have a thriving Asuan community.

So we have Fireworks, for Halloween, Guy Fawkes, Divali. Then continuous between now and New Year.

I do not mind most of them, but someone is still selling those very large, very loud ones, which make the house shake. I am sure they were banned years ago?.

I've just C & P this from our local online newspaper:

It is illegal to:
•Have or use adult fireworks if you’re under the age of 18. Adult fireworks are any firework except for a cap, cracker snap, novelty match, party popper, serpent, sparkler or throw-down.
•Set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am. There are different arrangements for special occasions like Guy Fawkes Night (midnight), Diwali, New Year’s Eve and Chinese New Year (1am).
•Have professional fireworks without a licence.
•Sell fireworks without a licence

The article was about someone's home being smothered in debris from a neighbours.

Which proves my point - it is not an issue with fireworks, it is an issue with careless/thoughtless individuals.

Same with guns. Fortunately, they're difficult to buy over the counter.