Follow the Firework Code!
Tonight is Guy Fawkes night in the UK, so I’m doing my bit for firework safety by reminding my Brit readers to be safe tonight! Here’s a Firework Code poster from the 1970s (my childhood) that I found online (HERE to be specific):
If you want to know what all the Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night fuss is about, see the article I wrote about it a few years ago HERE.
Are you celebrating Bonfire Night tonight?
Until I can get a car and travel to a firework display that won’t be full of the children I teach at work, I’m staying in and watching from my window. ^^ Also, it’s so cold outside! Happy Bonfire Night! =D
Awww… well, at least you’ll be warm! They don’t celebrate Bonfire Night in the US, but it might be fun to have a little bonfire in the back garden… just for old time’s sake. 🙂
I used to set off fireworks when I was a kid. It was fun and I remember walking way back since I was afraid of being sprayed.
I’m going to look up Guy Fawkes night.
We used to get “indoor fireworks”–I don’t know if you got those in the States. They were a series of tablets or blobs stuck onto a sheet of cardboard that did things when you lit them. One would smoke and let off a nasty smell, one made a long snake-like shape, another fizzed in different colors–the kinds of things you might do in Chemistry class on a small scale. They kept us entertained as kids when we didn’t go out to a neighborhood bonfire/firework show (which we went to a couple of times).