Why is it in these days of suffocating Health and Safety rules and rampant political correctness, your local corner shop, or supermarket for that matter, can sell small explosives and incendiary devices to all and sundry.

We've just endured a blitz like barrage in the communual green adjacent to our lounge window that has not only disturbed our televisual enjoyment but also scared the crap out of our dog.

You can't take a bottle of water through passport control, have a quiet fag with your pint or eat a mars bar while driving and woe betide anyone that commits the heinous crime of not putting their rubbish in the correct recepticle.

But on the other hand, you can offload a megaton of cordite into the atmosphere, scare the bloody life out of animals and old folk, risk the life and limb of yourself and anybody near you and put the fire service on red alert for two weeks every year in celebration of the death of a man that died 400 years ago.

Surely it's time for organised displays only. Moan over.

6-0, there, that should make it all better.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten. All better now.

I thought they had at least a couple more goals in them against such a weaker, inferior side.

You took your time!!!

Got to keep dabbing at the tears, don't want to short the keyboard.



Ha you saw my edit!!

don't worry, you are still above us............................for now.

It was actually a lot better where I was last year. Previous few years were crazy. Started a month before and went on for 2 months. Then got it again at Christmas.

Move to Spain, you can't buy them in shops here, all firework leting off should be licensed.

but that doesn't stop them being let off at all times, day and night, for months on end.....

In Spain you just get people firing canons every time there is a fiesta

Believe me Mike, we have an apartment in Ayamonte and as soon as work and family allow, we're buying a one way ticket.