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I find this kind of reading alarming

mmmmm me too

In fact, my friend's dad used to buy them for us to watch every year when we were small - we would go off in our wellies to the bonfire and fireworks in the field, then come back to my friend's house and watch our own little display. It was all very sensible fun - not everyone is a loony with a firework you know.

To be fair to Cal, he isn't saying everyone (though it's a slight generalisation) who has fireworks is like that but I do agree with him to a certain extent. The filth that does roam the streets terrorizing areas think that lighting fireworks in the streets is great fun and they take no care whatsoever. People like the one I mentioned in my post earlier is a fine example of scum. He used to come into my garden during the early hours when I was a bit younger and steal things like my bike, football nets, footballs etc and bullied me throughout the time he was allowed in school before getting expelled and last year he blew his hand off. He's the most well know idiot in our village and the only sympathy he recieved was from his ghastly mother. In fact, most of the responces to the incident were "Shame it wasn't his head".

I watched the news at dinner time and in Bolton, while firefighters are trying to put dangerous fires out caused by recklessness by scummy youths, they attack the firemen! These sort of people deserve everything they get.

That said, we used to light fireworks in the garden and have everyone from the street round to enjoy it and it was great. I try to get to the usual cricket club bonfire night and they are usually class.

I'm biased bcz I HATE fireworks. I'd love it if they were only for organised displays but even then they traumatise animals and my parents dog has to be sedated every year bcz he hyperventilates and has doggy-anxiety attacks. I had a firework thrown in my face once as a young teenager and I'm not actually traumatised by that but I do appreciate that older people, children and young children find it distressing and peturbing. Maybe when they have babies or get old themselves they would appreciate how intimidating it might be.

Organised events are the best way to go I think.

I take offense at your "common social filth" comment also Calrissian. We have a little fireworks display every year in our garden just for our kids and a couple of their friends. My husband buys a box and the kids love it. It is done very safely and my kids love it. This year because they are a little older, we gave them the choice of going to a big organised display or doing it ourselves as usual and the kids chose the latter. A lot of my friends are doing likewise and I wouldn't class any of us as common social filth.

As for Halloween, it has always been traditional to dress up and go around the neighbours in Ireland, though we were mostly given nuts, not sweets. I take my kids trick or treating. We go to the same houses every year (only people who know us) and the kid's trick is that they tell the neighbours a joke in exchange for some sweets. It is perfectly harmless and I think as long as the kids behave themselves and don't play tricks just good fun.

that sounds lovely Ellie!

That is fine Ellie - I guess it is like I said earlier - things are fine as long as they are done in a sensible way

Hope everyone has a good time tonight!!!

I will be dressing up later and my children will go trick or treating.Because we live in a small village they only visit their friends houses and their friends will pop by here.It's more of a social thing here as I'll probably leave the door open for folk to come in and out.

As for fireworks,we always get the odd nutter with them.I am amazed by what is sold in the shop as fireworks.....huge industrial things.We dont seem to get the little boxes I recall having as a kid and Tesco haven't even got sparklers They're juts far too big and dangerous and I'd not want to let them off in my back garden.We will have a binfire tho and cook sausages and baked potatoes on it tho

Greetings from Ireland, where we are mostly driven nuts, giving out sweets.

The noise from the fireworks will be deafening, from now until after midnight. (Cat must be kept in - but it's not as bad as when we had the dog, who used to be so terrified, he'd eat the furniture.. Gerbils are unaffected, though)

And fireworks are illegal here

yes they are gg as I remember when I went to Ireland one time a couple of years ago to visit my dads friend

The first shop, over the border, in Northern Ireland...after the Bureau de Change, is a fireworks store...

well our party went super well! We played musical statues (but they had to freeze in a spooky pose), guess who's the ghost, pass the parcel (hallowe'en style), pin the cat on the broom, dunking apples - they ate loads and then we had a little firework display in the back garden - they were all so excited and happy - but now I look like Alice Cooper cos my black eye makeup has run down my face but one of the mums brought me some wine as she thought I might need it! and yes she might be right......

I'm itchy from all this scratchy lace.Rain put a stop to the evenings callers though!