Whizz-bang!

Well, Halloween's over, and now we have a noisy week of more or less continuous fireworks what with Divali and Bonfire Night - and it tends not to end there. Not good news for pets, babies, invalids and older folk like me who don't appreciate being kept up until the small hours, but great for children, and that's how we need to look at it. Mind you, perhaps I'm just jealous - when I was little, we didn't have fireworks, we had the genuine article, courtesy of Herr Hitler and his Luftwaffe.