It was certainly nice to be back in the UK to sample the fireworks on November 5th. We went with good friends of ours to the local charity fireworks display in Cantley Park, Wokingham. We were wondering, like the organisers whether it would actually go ahead, we had bought our tickets in advance. Right up to the day before heavy rain was forecast, but instead the Unicorn Club in Wokingham was blessed with a dry night and the place was heaving with people to come and see the fireworks. It was a really good display, and the bonfire had an Olympic runner with a torch that was lit containing fireworks, which fizzed for while setting the bonfire alight. The Unicorn Club raised a whopping 23,000 GBP on the night for their nominated charities, including Prostate Cancer and Berkshire Air Ambulance.
The girls loved their present from Kate, a pair of luminous glow glasses, they were very easy to see in the crowds and distracted them completely from the fact that we had to wait another quarter of an hour to get the crowds in through the gates, genius Kate….genius… J
I really like going …’oooh’ and ‘ahhhh’ so enjoyed taking some pictures of the fireworks at the big display, however as they only explode in seconds, it is actually quite difficult capturing them at night when I only have a small Lumix camera (which always copes admirably in low light conditions) and no tripod, which you need for slow exposure shots really.
A yellow tinged firework looked great, even though I did not manage to capture all of it!
We did of course, also have some of the obligatory fireworks at home. It's every mans duty to advance on a box of home fireworks and light them to the amazement (or underwhelming disappointment) of their families. Well, no expense spared, we used some of the fireworks left in the garage. We thought that they looked fairly dry, and so we went ahead on the next day and lit some.......most of the fireworks you buy tend to be labelled 'Roman Candle: A shower of golden sparkles'. 'Traffic light, a shower of coloured sparkles'. I am sure that some of the fireworks we let off were not garden fireworks, but they shot up and let of a tremendous boom, we all jumped out of our skins! We left a few to set off in the New Year....
Alice and Laura both had a healthy respect for the sparklers (they had both had a safety talk on them at school assembly on the Friday before), not something they have had much of a chance to experience up to now. I am surprised that with all the Health and Safety regulations in the UK, that they still sell fireworks and sparklers, the ultimate hazardous experience of the year.
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