h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There is a little problem with having a firework distributor based a couple of hundred yards up the road from your house...

They distribute fireworks to people.

So I'm now getting a little impromptu pyrotechnic display happening just outside. Rockets are going whizzing off into the night's sky, and exploding with a whopping bang and showers of pretty sparks.

Is that something to be concerned about. Well generally no, though it could be seen as being a touch anti-social to do it at half past midnight

And you never did that?

No I never did actually



My specialty was the 'banger in the coke bottle' hand grenade

I can't say that I'm a stranger to those

Good to hear life is still full of sparkle!!!

*Sparkles*

When I was young the only fireworks we were allowed on Bonfire night were sparklers

Did you write OXO in the air with them?

* looks suspicious *

Yes - that and figures of 8 and our names

how did you know anyway?

Didn't every kid do that?

I wonder why?...

The premises of a display firework company in East Devon caught fire a couple of years ago. The roof landed half a mile away.

Raise the roof! Raise the roof!

* giggles *

we used to make our own weedkiller and suger,iron fileings test tube copper ect all gave spectactuler results "thanks to danny"

And now my neighbours are getting in on the act. From their back yard, which abuts onto mine -- albeit 15 feet down due to the elevation of the hill -- they are setting off all manner of rockets.

I wouldn't mind too much except for one thing. They've angled the rockets away from their house, and hence TOWARDS MINE


* sitting here with buckets of water just in case *

My neighbours at my previous house did that. They even hit my house with one rocket. Fortunately it didn't break any windows etc but I was not impressed with their attitude/behaviour. It not being deliberate was hardly the point since they shouldn't have been stupid enough to do it in the first place. It turns out that some neighbours throw eggs at each other or at houses instead. I don't think that's ever an accident. Humans are very strange and horrible creatures.

grey desk next time get out there with a baseball bat good practise

* hopes the chairs are OK *

Some people are just not satisfied with a good old fashioned sparkler

I'm afraid not One of next door's cats has taken posession of one of the chairs, so you're never likely to see that one again!