I'm sure any of you (apart from maybe Kingfisher!) are going to or have already been to a bonfire night this weekend. If you have, how did you find it?

I went to a fireworks display last night and it was thoroughly entertaining. The firework display was a bit short, but it was a good atmosphere and a good time seemed to be had by all.

I do always worry about nearby animals at fireworks displays, but this one was inside the town and didn't go on for long which I hope minimises the distrurbance to the surrounding wildilfe.

I hope you all had a good weekend!

despite all the bangs and whooshes last night two badgers were in my garden eating their nightly feed of peanuts 8pm.
Barry

I think fireworks are far to easily available these days, their sale should be limited to organised displays only. Last night most towns a villages sounded more like a war zone with all the bangs going of and even in a town there are still a lot of animals around including pets who can be very traumatised by the noise.

The fireworks go off every night for about a week before and after bonfire night which is wrong too. At least if the displays are kept short, as you say riana, and confined to a couple of nights only, this will minimise the disturbance caused to our wildlife and pets.

I went to our local display which was organised by the Roundtable (which has the added bonus of ensuring that all proceeds go to local charities) and as usual they put on a very good show. It was quite spectacular watching the exploding fireworks to the soundtrack of the Bond movies. A very well organised and run event.

As I've stated elsewhere, I agree that the sale of fireworks should be restricted to properly organised events.

As my dog is absolutely terrified by fireworks, we went to deepest Wales in our motorhome to a "dog friendly, firework free" meet organised by the Snowdonia District Association of the Camping & Caravan Club.

Beautiful area with lots of walking and we had an excellent view of Comet Holmes on Saturday night.

I used to enjoy fireworks when I was young, but now it seems that "bonfire night" goes on for weeks, and there seems to be an obsession with loud bangs, rather than attractive colours.

I went to a bonfire night which bring in a professional fireworks team each year, and it was a brilliant show. Instead of just having lots of random fireworks exploding with loud bangs across the sky, everything felt a lot more coordinated and worked towards a great finale.

Bonfire night does seem to go on for a long time though, although I can understand big displays having their night at the weekend to attract as many people as possible.

What I don't understand is why we celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes to blow up the houses of parliament. If he had succeded, there would have been MUCH more to celebrate!!

I suspect that there may be many people who would agree with you !

On the other hand, the UK could have wound up with something along the lines of the US Congress .

Same difference?

Kingfisher

And I disagree!!