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06 Nov · Sun 2005

Bonfire night


I went to a Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes) firework display yesterday evening. Setting aside any comments about the topical resonances of celebrating the execution of an anti-government protester from a religious minority, I have to say, the fireworks were fantastic. The village I went to is quite a small one - a population of at most a couple of thousand, compared to around 11,000 in the town where I live. The firework display, though, lasted for a good twenty minutes. These days, of course, it isn't enough to have stuff go whoosh, bang... you have to have music too. In this case they had a slightly weird assortment of movie music; the 70s version of 'The War of the Worlds' (with Richard Burton as narrator), the Fellowship of the Ring (well, the movie did have fireworks in...), Pirates of the Carribean (don't ask me...), and Star Wars Episode II for the finale. Cheesy though that may sound, the overall effect was very good. As for the fireworks themselves.. well, I would probably get into trouble for calling them that rather than 'pyrotechnics'. New colours seem to be making their way in to the repertoire; we've all seen red, green, silver and gold, with blue being a cool addition a few years ago. This year the new tech colours seem to be pink and orange. And of course the increasingly multi-functional items: ones which send up a whistling 'spinner' throwing off sparks, which then bursts into a 'chrysanthemum' of one colour followed by a cascade of another. The evening was windy and at times a little wet, and as everyone was in foul-weather gear I now have a new metric for firework displays. If you can see the display despite wearing a peaked cap, the fireworks aren't big enough.
Posted by racingsnake @ 11:51 PM GMT+00:00
 
 
 
 
 
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