Who's having their own firework display ?

[lazyitus]

[Eddh]

Think me and a friend are going to a public display have had our own previously just for an excuse to blow things up though

[threesixty]

We've gone down the less is more route this year. Same money spent, but instead of buying hundreds of pop rockets we've brought a selection of rockets that'd look more at home being fired from the shoulder by the men in turbans.

[captainzep]

Spent too much money on online firework purchases.

All gone in 5-6 minutes. -Worth every penny.

However, got 'firework lust' and started considering use of old can of petrol in the shed to keep the crazy pyrotechnics going.

Wife sat me down and calmed me with a sparkler, a pasty and pint of beer.

[Dirty Boy]

I claim that our firework displays are better than any public one.

There's usually 6 blokes armed with two lighters, trying to set off 12 rockets all at once. Obviously you always get the moment when everyone elses rockets are lit apart from yours, you see them leg it, and you're left praying yours light so you don't become responsible for ruining the previous 5 minutes of planning using drain pipes, mum's washing line and a bucket of stones

[The Curn]

I'm not allowed my own display after last year. Things that were badly damaged include;

My credit card
My mates hand
An Evergreen Oak tree
A Greenhouse
2 Hazel fence panels
A neighbours roof
My marital relationship
The fridge
Our reputation in the village as upstanding members of the community
A Vauxhall Corsa
The Lawn
An oak Water Butt
The wheelie bin (beyond repair)
The hoover tube (used for mortar attacks)

Sometimes women have no sense of humour.

[funkyrobot]

The Curn said:

I'm not allowed my own display after last year. Things that were badly damaged include;

My credit card
My mates hand
An Evergreen Oak tree
A Greenhouse
2 Hazel fence panels
A neighbours roof
My marital relationship
The fridge
Our reputation in the village as upstanding members of the community
A Vauxhall Corsa
The Lawn
An oak Water Butt
The wheelie bin (beyond repair)
The hoover tube (used for mortar attacks)

Sometimes women have no sense of humour.

Oh dear! I bet you had fun though!

I'm doing my own little display again on Saturday night. My fiance absolutely hates the things though, so she normally hides in the house when I do them. I'll be outside with a few friends and my dad blazing away.

I always end up spending far too much money on fireworks but I love them (I think I have a problem lol). I usually end up trying to see how many I can set off at once too. I think my record is two rockets and a mine all in one go! Not great but that was with a piddly little lighting stick.

Thats a point, someone on here mentioned online purchases. Any good shops online? I would like to buy them all year round, not just at this time of the year!

[bigTee]

I’ll do my usual.

Buy a couple of air bombs and rig them up to a mobile phone detonator in the garden.


Oh what fun it is to hear the Nokia tune then BOOOOM!!

do you think MI5 will be reading this post?

[Dirty Boy]

funkyrobot said:

. I'll be outside with a few friends and my dad blazing away.

I find a guy burns more easily than a Dad.

[threesixty]

funkyrobot said:

Oh dear! I bet you had fun though!

I'm doing my own little display again on Saturday night. My fiance absolutely hates the things though, so she normally hides in the house when I do them. I'll be outside with a few friends and my dad blazing away.

I always end up spending far too much money on fireworks but I love them (I think I have a problem lol). I usually end up trying to see how many I can set off at once too. I think my record is two rockets and a mine all in one go! Not great but that was with a piddly little lighting stick.

Thats a point, someone on here mentioned online purchases. Any good shops online? I would like to buy them all year round, not just at this time of the year!

Lots of shops online.

However I got an e-mail after placing my order telling me that they could no longer legally ship the rockets i'd ordered to private individual.

We went to a shop in acton instead, seemed reasonable enough.

[Eddh]

Dirty Boy said:

funkyrobot said:

. I'll be outside with a few friends and my dad blazing away.

I find a guy burns more easily than a Dad.

[spitfire-ian]

I'm getting together with a load of friends tomorrow night for fireworks, a bbq, and drinks. Then on Saturday we're having a family version of much the same thing

[Moreymach]

I havnt done anything much for years, in fact not bought anything more than a £5 box every few years since I was a kid.

This year got some friends coming round and went out and bought a load from Morrisons ( good or not - will have to wait n see ). OH is doing baked potatoes will have the bbq going and the chimnea roaring ( such as a 3 foot chimnea can) .

Cant wait.

[BigBen]

Loads of friends coming round each with the instruction to bring a fk off big firework. Always get a great turnout and massive display, roll on Saturday

[fathomfive]

Moreymach said:

I havnt done anything much for years, in fact not bought anything more than a £5 box every few years since I was a kid.

This year got some friends coming round and went out and bought a load from Morrisons ( good or not - will have to wait n see ). OH is doing baked potatoes will have the bbq going and the chimnea roaring ( such as a 3 foot chimnea can) .

Cant wait.

Did you get the Black Puma box? I got 2 of those last year, pretty good IMO. Muc, much better than the Asda atuff I got the year before.

I also invested in a decent pack of rockets from a local display outfit (the rockets were legal for use at home).

Have done the same this year. Can't wait.

Edited by fathomfive on Tuesday 4th November 10:10

[roadsweeper]

Roughly £400 worth of fireworks ready and waiting!

[Moreymach]

fathomfive said:

Did you get the Black Puma box?

Edited by fathomfive on Tuesday 4th November 10:10

Yep thats the one.. seems quite a good selection and came with some rockets and large-ish box type fieworks thrown in.

[lazyitus]

roadsweeper said:

Roughly £400 worth of fireworks ready and waiting!

BLIMEY !

I thought I'd gone over budget at £31.50.

[k_jessop]

I got 40 packets of rockets ( 12 per packet ) for £70 last night of someone I know only as " that pikey kid!" lmao

[funkyrobot]

lazyitus said:

roadsweeper said:

Roughly £400 worth of fireworks ready and waiting!

BLIMEY !

I thought I'd gone over budget at £31.50.

I spend about £100 every year, but £400, thats awesome. I guess you'll get about, erm, 5 minutes for that?

Would love to spend that if I had the money, even though i'd be in trouble lol.