Thought I'd take a minute to reflect on some nostalgia as Canberra has 'progressively' decided that hard drugs, weed and trams are better for kids than fireworks. However local kids seem to have gotten their hands on some fireworks and given us a few free shows over the past few weeks (promptly followed by police sirens blazing towards the local parks. Love a bit of mischief like that!
Anybody got some festive stories about fireworks?
Two that I'll share are:
1. In Japan I was having a pretty lonely/tough time around obon season (a summer festival). A mate scored one of those old ~$150 return tickets to Japan and we were like 'THIS IS ON!!!' So he came, we hit the cans big time and then we walked to the beach to launch a heap of fireworks. 'Twas magic!
2. As a kid we used to head down to our beach house on the south coast (nearish to Canberra) a lot. One year a friend's dad (a well known radio presenter) loaded his boot up with fireworks and brought them down the beach for us. Damn we had some good times down there... peeeew peeew peeeew... followed by loud cheers from various beach houses along the point. Them's were the days
Bring back fireworks I say.
Anybody got some festive stories about fireworks?
Two that I'll share are:
1. In Japan I was having a pretty lonely/tough time around obon season (a summer festival). A mate scored one of those old ~$150 return tickets to Japan and we were like 'THIS IS ON!!!' So he came, we hit the cans big time and then we walked to the beach to launch a heap of fireworks. 'Twas magic!
2. As a kid we used to head down to our beach house on the south coast (nearish to Canberra) a lot. One year a friend's dad (a well known radio presenter) loaded his boot up with fireworks and brought them down the beach for us. Damn we had some good times down there... peeeew peeew peeeew... followed by loud cheers from various beach houses along the point. Them's were the days
Bring back fireworks I say.
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