Leicester Fireworks

Leicester does its firework show at the weekend. Nice of them. Had arranged to see them with flickums and meet up with Wolfie Alex and Sarah.

Arrived in plenty of time. Discovered that sparklers were't permitted So I transferred them from flick's bag to my coat, and deviously smuggled them in (and didn't use them because even master criminals like me have our limits). Flickums bought me a toffee apple because that's mandatory for firework's night and she doesn't like them.

The show involved some local radio stuff, and a visit from Darth Vader and Stormtroopers, presumably recruited from the 501st (the costumes were too good to be from a professional company). Then they lit the bonfire. There was a lot of smoke. fortunately we were standing nowhere near downwind of it. Then there was a min firework display for kids (presumably so the little ones could see some fireworks and get home by bed time).

This was followed by some glowing dancing giant robots, changing colour and spraying fire extinguishers. Then the fireworks started! Lots of bangs and whooshes, and some funky slow falling strips of glowing red lights that I hadn't seen before.

We finished the day with candy floss and chips (and slightly epic queues), but at least the crowd had died down when we left. And then after leaving we finally got to play with the smuggled sparklers.

So that was fun.