Early Trick or Treating?

We've already had bonfire night fireworks in our town.  It's always scheduled for Monday night during the kid's halfterm holiday from school, which is great for us.  It's a carnival, bonfire, and fantastic fireworks display.  I really hope they don't discontinue it.

It is a real bummer because the boy has been asking incessantly when are they. And the last 2 years have been of a really high standard, in fact, last year was one of the best displays I had ever seen. And for a town of 10,000 that was amazing. DD just told me she was sure the coke was £3!!!

That's shocking  We go to Brockham, near Dorking, and they manage to put on a HUGE display with burgers/hotdogs and a pig roast and a bonfire that takes a month to build. The food is pretty reasonable and, for the most part, it's all done on donations and the sale of those glowie bracelets/necklaces (that my mum would never let me have when I was a kid because she was convinced they were radioactive  ). 

Did they get people to go round shaking buckets of money at people or try to get it all through food sales?

Did they get people to go round shaking buckets of money at people or try to get it all through food sales?

They did and I believe the Round Table guys were involved so I would have thought businessmen/women would know about raising funds. I have no idea of costs of fireworks on a professional scale but the last 2-years displays were very professional, as good as any I’ve seen in some other large citiesEdinburgh so I am only guessing they went over the top considering the minimal number of benefactors in a small town.

…those glowie bracelets/necklaces (that my mum would never let me have when I was a kid because she was convinced they were radioactive  ). 
 

So you probably didn't get to play with the bottle of mercury that was kept under the sink? Loved playing with that stuff as a kid. Liquid metal, how cool was that? Then they went and took it away. Oh well that gave me more time for building my models and I could still buy the glue at age 8. At least I got more immediate effects.

Check out this site…
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/10-radioactive-products-that-people-actually-used/1388

Radioactive Viagra? 

Radium Suppositories
These radioactive suppositories promised to make ‘weak discouraged men’ literally ‘bubble over with joyous vitality’ and were produced by the Home Products Company of Denver, Colorado. Soluble radium was added to a cocoa butter base in the form of a suppository and was introduced into the rectum in order to stimulate “the weakened organs that needed its vitalizing aid’. They were even shipped in plain packaging for confidentiality.

Makes me wonder sometimes, how has the human race managed to flourish?

They did and I believe the Round Table guys were involved so I would have thought businessmen/women would know about raising funds. I have no idea of costs of fireworks on a professional scale but the last 2-years displays were very professional, as good as any I’ve seen in some other large citiesEdinburgh so I am only guessing they went over the top considering the minimal number of benefactors in a small town.

So you probably didn't get to play with the bottle of mercury that was kept under the sink? Loved playing with that stuff as a kid. Liquid metal, how cool was that? Then they went and took it away. Oh well that gave me more time for building my models and I could still buy the glue at age 8. At least I got more immediate effects.

Check out this site…
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/10-radioactive-products-that-people-actually-used/1388

Radioactive Viagra? 
Makes me wonder sometimes, how has the human race managed to flourish?

HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY KEPT A BOTTLE OF MERCURY UNDER THE SINK??!?!?
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Dad?  *whispers* Is that you?




A professional display would run to the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds. It takes some serious donations to keep it going. The Brockham display runs like clockwork and I suspect a clause in the deeds when you buy a house there is that you will volunteer for the firework display committee LOL

HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY KEPT A BOTTLE OF MERCURY UNDER THE SINK??!?!?
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Dad?  *whispers* Is that you?

Yea, 'tis I. Game's up, you got me. Could you do your old man a favour and keep mum? People around these parts think I'm much younger than I really am.