Fireworks absurdity

[altivo]

I don't get it, never have, never will. The idiot neighbors are trying to set the woods on fire with professional grade rocketry that is utterly illegal for them to possess or use.

In other news, I planted a second crop of lettuce, spinach, arugula, cilantro, and chard today, between rain drips.

Oh, and Argos has signed on for Le Tour de Fleece. He will be using the Bosworth charkha to spin a fine yarn of cotton and wool blended together. We had to clear off a skein of tussah silk that was still wound onto the bobbins. The silk amounted to 208 yards and weighed only 0.3 ounces. That gives an average weight of over 11,000 yards to the pound, and a grist of about 50 wraps to the inch. Very fine stuff, but quite strong.

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[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Over here the main firework nights are 31 October and New Year's Eve. The effect on pets is, of course, much the same.

We've generally gone to public displays rather than buy our own. A friend of mine buys a case of fireworks for 31/10 and goes to his family's remote cottage (in the pretty Lake District) to set them off.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Guy Fawkes has always seemed like a really bizarre celebration to me. So you celebrate a failed attempt to blow up Parliament by trying to blow yourself up instead?

Attempts to focus on public displays here have failed to reduce the incidence of private violations and accidents by much. Every year we hear about deaths and destruction caused when errors or malfunctions occurred at public displays being put on by supposed professionals.