DISQUS

Mick · 1 year ago

Hi, I agree, I'm near wealthy Highgate, London and it's gone from a two week cavalcade of flashes and bangs to a few bangs recently combined with a few flashes last night . I sent round an email entitled "Do quiet skies foretell doom" a few days ago to friends. One local did agree but thought that it had been decreasing the last few years. I'm no economist but wasn't the fear of spending what made the Japanese 1990's recession last a decade and that was in an economy that had something real to sell, not services mainly in a totally discredited banking sector like the UK. The similarities to that are interesting and the Nikkei today is at levels of 25 years ago, ominous for anyone mad enough to gamble on the stock market.

mick · 12 months ago

Hi,
Here's an alternative explanation:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/ol...

There seem to be more fireworks tonight and I just rang my local Sainsbury's and they are out of fireworks. I now think it is a combination of the Chinese shortage, the 5th occurring on a Wednesday, a very wet Saturday last week , possible long-term decline in firework use with a bit of recession thrown in.

Amrix · 12 months ago

Yes that might explain it.

Calvin Robinson · 11 months ago

Tbh I was glad for this. I quite like fireworks on bonfire night, but I hate that the run-up the bonfire night usually consists of teenagers lettings off fireworks all night. It gets annoying.