Published on 12, July, 2020
What does anyone else think about fireworks? Often people talk about pets. I don't like the very loud ones. I think it must be very difficult for people who have lived in a war zone. I don't remember so many with loud bangs when I was a child, more a whoosh and colourful stars.
I think there could be a limit to the decibels fireworks created so they don't make you jump or traumatize people.
I was born in 1962.
When I was a child in Portsmouth there were still bomb sites (and a total absence of health and safety regulations).
The bomb sites were left over from WWII (Portsmouth was heavily bombed).
I lived in the poorest neighbourhood, Landport, and all the streets around would build a huge bonfire from anything and everything over the months on a bomb site and then on November 5th light it and take their own fireworks along.
Nowadays, I like seeing fireworks but don't like hearing them.
A few years ago I went to the Lewes celebrations.
Fantastic, chaotic, anarchic, total sensory overload.
The Lewes one is near where I am now, but I still have never gone, because I hear it is very very supppper busy (I mean I feel like most of Brighton and areas around head on over, so doesn't sound like my idea of a good and non crowded time!)
It's unbelievably busy. The population of Lewes is 18K and around 80K attend.
We stayed in a hotel but that's only because there was a last minute cancellation.
The few places to stay are booked up well in advance.
You live in a lovely area of the country.
I lived in Eastbourne for a few years and often visit Brighton.
We visit Lewes quite often too for the antique centres.
wow so many people :O hotel was smart, I don't think the transport s reliable or something easily planned around that night! I think I can hear the fireworks from my house anyway, and it isn't like I am that close!! Yes we love living around here, being close to the sea is lovely (when it isn't being pumped full of sewage!) and it is eccentric enough a place that I don't ever feel like I am completely out of place