Last year we suffered through the craziness that 'is' the week of Diwali - firecrackers every night from 6pm to 3am for at least a week and we promised never to do it again. However, with Mum and Carol here we decided to have our own Diwali night and celebrate with a bang ! Firecrackers are readily available on the street to buy and are as cheap as chips. As always, I was concerned with the quality of the production but happy to report that we chose well and had a nice pile of crackers for us to 'play' with.
The only stipulations from the Palm Meadows association is the time to set them off, which is before10pm....... if only that was abided by all residents......), the noise levels are within the legal standards (which in India is BLOODY loud) and that all fireworks were manufactured without using child labour. Tick, Tick and Tick and we were ready for a fun night ahead.
Our neighbours joined us in our front garden and we spilled on to the street to set off about $50 worth of crackers. Lighting the crackers was quite the challenge with the indian matches not helping in any way - in fact we were probably better off using them as kindling..... We finally resorted to using a mosquito coil and incense sticks to assist with lighting - hilarious as that was...... We also had cars and bikes driving by (or even through) the display without any concerns. We had one rocket go sideways - luckily away from the house - and we nearly had one of the palm trees on fire but all in all a fun time was had, and to young pyromaniacs we born.
We didn't have a lot of faith in the manufacturing of the fireworks but it is amazing how quickly you just accept the situation and jump in there in the hope you come out with your existing 10 fingers, 10 toes and 2 functioning eyes...... We had a couple of malfunctions along the way but the favourites were definitely the rockets and the 'Beauty Queen' box below - 25 powerful bangs to light up the sky. Hope you enjoy the videos as much as we did.
The only stipulations from the Palm Meadows association is the time to set them off, which is before10pm....... if only that was abided by all residents......), the noise levels are within the legal standards (which in India is BLOODY loud) and that all fireworks were manufactured without using child labour. Tick, Tick and Tick and we were ready for a fun night ahead.
Our neighbours joined us in our front garden and we spilled on to the street to set off about $50 worth of crackers. Lighting the crackers was quite the challenge with the indian matches not helping in any way - in fact we were probably better off using them as kindling..... We finally resorted to using a mosquito coil and incense sticks to assist with lighting - hilarious as that was...... We also had cars and bikes driving by (or even through) the display without any concerns. We had one rocket go sideways - luckily away from the house - and we nearly had one of the palm trees on fire but all in all a fun time was had, and to young pyromaniacs we born.
We didn't have a lot of faith in the manufacturing of the fireworks but it is amazing how quickly you just accept the situation and jump in there in the hope you come out with your existing 10 fingers, 10 toes and 2 functioning eyes...... We had a couple of malfunctions along the way but the favourites were definitely the rockets and the 'Beauty Queen' box below - 25 powerful bangs to light up the sky. Hope you enjoy the videos as much as we did.
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