Baby you're a firework
Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. The beginning of November is upon us again and that means Bonfire Night. This year the 5th falls on a Monday. So tonight, Saturday, will be the most popular night or fireworks.
Of course these little mini explosives have been on sale in our supermarkets, DIY stores and corner shops for the last six weeks and have probably been causing havoc as undisciplined youths set them off dangerously in the streets of Britain's inner cities. For a number of nights surrounding the 5th of November bangs and flashes will be seen and heard disturbing the sleep of young children and scaring over sensitive pets.
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In the right hands the firework can be such an amazing little object and when grouped together by experts in an organised display and set to some rousing music the result can be truly spectacular. I have just returned from one of these giant organised displays. I along with over twenty thousand others watched a firework display that lasted at least twenty five minutes.
I have only two gripes:
Firstly there was no bonfire.
No large fire that has been built over the last month, growing everyday until it was an unstable mass of combustible material. This fire should then be doused with petrol and then lit by a long flaming torch causing the large mound to erupt in flame, so that the people standing close would feel the hairs on the back of their hands singe and their nostrils would be slightly aware of a smell akin to the grilling of bacon. An effigy of Guy Fawkes would then be thrown aloft the burning pyre to remind those watching of his role in the gunpowder plot. I guess these fires are now an issue with health and safety...
Secondly fireworks seem now not just to be for bonfire night.
Through some cunning marketing (and who could blame them) the people that make the fireworks seem to be used for other occasions; weddings, birthdays, to mark the New Year, at the start and end of international sporting events to name just a few. They are very popular and with all popular things after a while they go out of favour and lose their mass appeal.
The clever firework makers will need to keep manufacturing bigger, louder and more clever fireworks to ensure that they remain as awesome and spectacular as the ones I saw tonight and that November 5th stays an important date in Great Britain's diary.
Of course these little mini explosives have been on sale in our supermarkets, DIY stores and corner shops for the last six weeks and have probably been causing havoc as undisciplined youths set them off dangerously in the streets of Britain's inner cities. For a number of nights surrounding the 5th of November bangs and flashes will be seen and heard disturbing the sleep of young children and scaring over sensitive pets.
In the right hands the firework can be such an amazing little object and when grouped together by experts in an organised display and set to some rousing music the result can be truly spectacular. I have just returned from one of these giant organised displays. I along with over twenty thousand others watched a firework display that lasted at least twenty five minutes.
I have only two gripes:
Firstly there was no bonfire.
No large fire that has been built over the last month, growing everyday until it was an unstable mass of combustible material. This fire should then be doused with petrol and then lit by a long flaming torch causing the large mound to erupt in flame, so that the people standing close would feel the hairs on the back of their hands singe and their nostrils would be slightly aware of a smell akin to the grilling of bacon. An effigy of Guy Fawkes would then be thrown aloft the burning pyre to remind those watching of his role in the gunpowder plot. I guess these fires are now an issue with health and safety...
Secondly fireworks seem now not just to be for bonfire night.
Through some cunning marketing (and who could blame them) the people that make the fireworks seem to be used for other occasions; weddings, birthdays, to mark the New Year, at the start and end of international sporting events to name just a few. They are very popular and with all popular things after a while they go out of favour and lose their mass appeal.
The clever firework makers will need to keep manufacturing bigger, louder and more clever fireworks to ensure that they remain as awesome and spectacular as the ones I saw tonight and that November 5th stays an important date in Great Britain's diary.
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