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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Looks like I'm not the only one who hates Chinese lanterns.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I also thought they were being banned because of the harm to livestock from the metal / bamboo frames.  If they aren't being banned, they should be.  If you set random fires in any other way I'm sure prosecution would follow.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Watching all the fireworks, even those over water generate a load of rubbish into the sea, isn't it time we had laser light shows instead?  No pollution for the air and the sea. Much more environmentally friendly. How many asthma attacks were triggered in London over New Year?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    fidgetbones said:
    Watching all the fireworks, even those over water generate a load of rubbish into the sea, isn't it time we had laser light shows instead?  No pollution for the air and the sea. Much more environmentally friendly. How many asthma attacks were triggered in London over New Year?
    And no need to worry if the cameras have been set up downwind as many were in London.
    I know they can't predict which way the wind will blow when it's initaly set up, but it was really annoying when they cut to the cameras in the path of the smoke so you couldn't see much. We gave up and switched to Jools Holland before they'd finished.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Apparently it attracts tourists.   Hate the things myself.   Waste of money, bad for the environment and terrifying for critters whether wild, domestic or in captivity in zoos.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    The late, great Sir Terry Wogan and his silent firework displays. Every year, the oohs and aahs as people used their imaginations........
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/terrywogan/8872129/How-I-staged-the-greatest-fireworks-displays-never-seen.html
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Just found a package in the greenhouse which was supposed to be a tracked package in time for Xmas. Not even a card throught the door to say it was there. Turned out to be panettone no.4! Diet may be postponed.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If it’s past its best @steephill, panettone and a smidgeon of something nice like Amaretto can be turned into a wonderful bread and butter pudding 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Have a look at the Singapore drones in the countdown to New Year to see what could be done






  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Compared to the fireworks I thought the drones were pretty lame, especially when viewed at normal speed and without the benefit of a zoom lens.
    Rutland, England
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