Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff

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So the clocks have gone back, leaves are falling all over the place, its officially Autumn. Its still October, though, so why has everyone round here skipped past Halloween and jumped straight ahead to Guy Fawkes Night? While we were putting away the shopping we were subjected to an enormous barrage of fireworks, right above the house. Sounded like we'd been transported to Helmand Province. The cat was scared, even I was a little bit unnerved. I really hate that fireworks are so readily available. Especially as round here, once we've got over the run up to Guy Fawkes Night, we go straight into Divali, and even though thats only a short festival, the fireworks seem to be never ending right through till New Year. Two and a half months of solid firework hell.

Don't get me wrong, I love fireworks I think they're really pretty. But organised displays are the way forward people!

I don't like having to keep Mr Fidget in the house all the time. and for him to go 2 months without really being able to go outside much once it gets dark is very unfair on him. At the moment he's on quick dashes outside to go to the loo and thats about it. Luckily for us he's such a well behaved darling he doesnt mind.

Day one of the new revision timetable has gone well - I came home and did 2 chapters of Performance Management - all about budgets *yawn*

i also had a phone call from the charity I used to donate to, trying to get me to start my DD back up again. something about starving people in Ethiopia and the global food crisis. I had to try very hard not to say "well surely this is just God's way of telling us the world is overcrowded and we need to thin out the population a bit". Jamie is now chuckling away to himself because I've just explained this to him. He just described me as "deliciously right-wing".

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I'm with you on fireworks. My Dad was an assault engineer in the Marines, which means he used to deal with Semtex, gelignite etc on a daily basis, and he used to say that fireworks were was dangerous as plastic explosives, and should only be sold to those with a proper licence, for organised displays. Essentially, the active ingredient is gunpowder. It's not too tricky to dismantle fireworks and combine all the powder into a decent sized charge capable of blowing up a car. I know - I've done it!

This puts a bit of a downer on Diwali, not to mention Chinese New Year with all the firecrackers, but it's a safety issue.