We have lived in our house for ten years, and every Saturday for those ten years, around about 7 o’clock in the evening, we hear fireworks exploding. Before I go on, let me add that fireworks are illegal in the state of Queensland.
Every Saturday night, fireworks. We can’t see them, but we can hear them.
Ten years of it, and I have never ever found out who, what ,or why, someone is lighting fireworks. Then again, maybe no one needs to have a reason, maybe they just like to look at pretty colours, or make loud noises.
The irritation of a decade of not knowing is starting to wear my patience down, and as we know I have precious little of that in store, so I fear that when I do find out that who, what and why; and if it not something interesting like some Chinese weekly ritual and merely some dim witted locals, well then they may just get a cracker up their… well, I am too much to say more, but think of the word cracker, only a slightly shorter version.
Let ‘er rip, FD!
It could get messy!
Why are fireworks illegal in Queensland? Really, I don’t know.
It must be awful not knowing who, where and why they are doing it. Shocking!!
So many children were injured each year during “Cracker Night” aka Guyfawkes, that in the 1960s (or maybe early1970s) they were banned. We have them at official public occasions like New Years but individuals are not allowed to possess them.
OK. That makes sense. We used to have many injuries over here in GB but there seems to be less incidents mentioned these days. Thanks for letting me know.
Oh you go, girl!
There really is a wild woman inside of you, isn’t there!
In my dreams, but definitely there!
How irritating! I wonder how long they go on for – more than a few minutes? We have the same problem here, but it is sporadic and only in the summer months.
About 10 minutes. I need to find out soon as we are moving shortly and the mystery shall remain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YrNQaXdOxU This kind of crackers?
no not animal crackers in my soup! LOL.
Do you, by any chance, live near a golf course? Here in Ontario, Canada, they let off ‘boomers’ every night around dusk to scare the Canada geese away (apparently that is ‘nesting time’ for them and if they frighten them off, they don’t come back; they tried floating blow up alligators at another course in town, but apparently the geese soon realized they had nothing to fear from the grinning gators). We live two blocks from a rather ‘hoity-toity’ golf club and sometimes the noise is quite frightening!
Yes we do – about two blocks away. That could very well be it – lots of birds and deer, as well as kangaroos. I think you may be onto it!
‘Birds and deer and kangaroos’ – sounds romantic compared to Canada Geese!