Bonfire Night – The Stars Are Bright (and very expensive)

It’s nearly here again, bonfire night, although a great event and tradition, celebrating the defeat of the gunpowder plotters, it’s become yet another commercial excuse to part the unwary from their cash.

When I was a kid, fireworks were only available on sale a week before the event (or so it seems) and disappeared the day after, fireworks were only for bonfire night, now it’s any excuse for goodness sake!

Rockets, bangers and the like have been going off around us for the past week or so, where do these people get all the money from? Because they certainly aren’t cheap.

I’ve nothing against bonfire night, I’ve nothing against fireworks, and I’ve certainly got nothing against people having fun, but I’m not paying upwards of £100 for a paltry box of fireworks that last 10 minutes, if you’re lucky, and then what?

There’s generally a free bonfire and firework display in all areas (some paid for by the council tax payers) so there’s no need to buy your own, they will be paying whether I watch or not, so I may as well enjoy the free show. You can even just stand in your own back yard and watch the neighbours’ displays, because they’ll go up in the sky for the entire world to see anyway.

Have a safe and ‘free’ bonfire night.