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I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

This year Lewes' choice of effigies not only includes a Theresa May with the three Brexiteers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage, but there's also a collection of three different Donald Trump effigies to burninate! Though I am surprised that there isn't one relating to the recent train strikes and the RMT/Southern Railway dispute (one bit of fallout from the dispute is there are no train services to Lewes this afternoon - the RMT are not doing a god job at rallying public support with their choice of strikes!).

I'm up in Horsham at the moment and there seems to be less fireworks round here than previous years. Perhaps the very cold weather (I had to scrape a thin layer of frost off the car when giving [livejournal.com profile] elemnar a lift this evening!) has put people off? In any case, I managed to watch a firework display from my flat last - The Fareham Sailing club hold the odd display from their marina, which being just the other side of the creek from my flat means I get an excellent view from the balcony (especially now that the aggregates place has demolished their giant stone-sorter-thing). It was a pretty decent display, though the chap letting the fireworks off does need to work on his aim a bit and make sure the fireworks go up, not sideways. Still, it's an improvement on the last one where one of the shells detonated on the marina. I can't imagine the boat owners would have been pleased by being showered with ground-level fireworks!
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I've said it before, but one of the really nice things about this flat is the balcony, and the random fireworks I get to watch from it. I could see what, seven or so different displays from here: some from HMS Sultan's display, the odd firework from a couple of back-garden ones, the glows on the sky and the lights just visible through trees of some more, and even a couple of the higher-flying ones from what must be a good two miles down towards Gosport.

And the closest one, launched from one of the marinas in Fareham Creek. Which went rather well right up to what was presumably the grand finale - one of those large explosions that fires out a cloud of smaller sparkling explosions - which instead of exploding up in the sky, went off at approximately sea level. From my viewpoint up in my balcony about a quarter of a mile away it looked rather pretty with the reflections in the water, though I doubt any of the nearby yacht owners would have been pleased by it!

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