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undyingking) wrote2007-11-06 09:10 am
undyingking) wrote2007-11-06 09:10 am
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Putting the "bon" in "fire"
Had the slightly unusual experience last night of going to a Guy Fawkes Night in a neighbour's garden, in which all the fireworks used were garden-sized, rather than display-sized. Rather than cowering by the back door, we were craning forward to peer at them. I can't remember when that last happened.
It seems that my neighbours are very different from my friends in this regard -- over the last n years I seem to have more or less alternated between going to public displays and going to friends, and in all the friends cases it's been "if you're going to have bangs in your back garden, you want big bangs"1.
On another note, it surprised me that there seems to be some difference of opinion about what the idea of the event is supposed to be. So a quick poll is called for I think.
[Poll #1083758]
1 Yes, even since that infamous occasion at Eastwick of which we do not speak.
It seems that my neighbours are very different from my friends in this regard -- over the last n years I seem to have more or less alternated between going to public displays and going to friends, and in all the friends cases it's been "if you're going to have bangs in your back garden, you want big bangs"1.
On another note, it surprised me that there seems to be some difference of opinion about what the idea of the event is supposed to be. So a quick poll is called for I think.
[Poll #1083758]
1 Yes, even since that infamous occasion at Eastwick of which we do not speak.