Fireworks

Fireworks aren't really floating my boat this year. Typically I'm a little but of a pyromaniac and love watching them or holding sparklers, but in recent times the need to see burning things has dwindled. This year I just feel old as I hear the bangs. They strangely enough sound way too much like guns going off for my liking and invoke unhappy memories or scared times as a teenager.

I'm also acutely aware of the wastage of it all. So much money is spent on fireworks and so little people to enjoy them and they are over so quickly. I say spend money on fairy lights, that way there is way more enjoyment for all, without the wastage. Or we should be more community minded and get together and all watch at once and enjoy the shared-ness. Perhaps I'm not really getting old, I'm just becoming more of a hippy. Or I'm too stingy to buy my own fireworks as I'm coveting new running shoes and am attemtping to work the budget around to slot them in. But the hippy idea is taking my fancy... it goes better with the mung bean love.