Graham

Let me explain:

Once upon a time there was a tradition known as "Bonfire Night" or "Guy Fawkes Night".

A couple of weeks beforehand, kids would make up effigies or "Guys" and try to raise a bit of cash for fireworks.

On the night people would light bonfires and set off fireworks and everyone with cats and dogs etc would know to keep them inside.

And that would be it for another year.

Now shops start selling fireworks at the end of September and kids start doing the "penny for the guy" business about the end of the first week of October it seems like.

And instead of it being "fireworks night", it's more like "fireworks two months" as people let them off at any time of the day or night all through October, November and even into December.

And please, don't forget that these are *explosive devices* we are talking about and despite campaigns every year, children are burned or mutilated because even though it's illegal they still get their hands on them.

So if you want to see a firework display, go to a *properly* licenced and organised display (which is a lot better than a few poxy rockets and catherine wheels from a "selection box" which probably costs you over thirty quid anyway) and save everyone a lot of grief and hassle!