[Misc] Fireworks

[Official Old Man]

Went to a local fireworks display last night and whilst there realised that my usual supplier of fireworks, namely Aldi, had none available in the Lewes branch. Is this shortage nation wide and all shops?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Went to a local fireworks display last night and whilst there realised that my usual supplier of fireworks, namely Aldi, had none available in the Lewes branch. Is this shortage nation wide and all shops?

Raab bought most of them in a £10b procurement deal to combat recent missile launches by China.

 

[Chicken Run]

Many supermarkets are no longer selling them, Sainsbury’s being one of them.


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[BN9 BHA]

There is definitely not a shortage of fireworks in the Newhaven area.

I can’t say I’ve seen any on sale as I haven’t been looking, but last week there were fireworks going off every evening. Friday and Saturday evening their seemed to be many back garden displays going on in this area.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Tesco have some. Should stop selling them though imo

 

[maffew]

Yes there is unsurprisingly short supply, another brexit/supply chain from Asia casualty

 

[BNthree]

The joys of buying mini rockets and air bomb repeaters so I could be antisocial as a lad.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Most news sources were certainly predicting a shortage a month ago.

Bonfire Night fireworks ‘70% down’ due to Brexit and supply chain crisis

Brexit and the supply chain crisis are threatening to put a dampener on this year’s Bonfire Night firework displays as distributors warn that import problems have reduced stocks by up to 70% and forced up prices. One supplier said wholesalers were unwilling to stock up on pyrotechnics products because of additional paperwork related to Brexit and a change in safety labelling that has caused confusion about what can be sold in the UK past the end of 2022.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/22/bonfire-night-fireworks-70-down-due-to-brexit-and-supply-chain-crisis

Although there didn't seem to be a shortage around 'The theatre of tress' last night

 

[GT49er]

Bought my little display for the grandkids yesterday - no bother.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Went to a local fireworks display last night and whilst there realised that my usual supplier of fireworks, namely Aldi, had none available in the Lewes branch. Is this shortage nation wide and all shops?

Aldi Portslade normally has loads but none Friday. Probably down to the miserable gits complaining ..... strange the same complainers love Hollowen.

 

[zefarelly]

Burning money isn't as affordable for most of us as it once was.

I'm putting the heating on for half an hour next weekend, limited ticket availability already to watch the pilot light through the little window, but I may do a live stream for those less fortunate.

 

[GT49er]

Most news sources were certainly predicting a shortage a month ago.

Good policy. Feed the media with a predicted shortage and whack up the prices. So many have done just that with all sorts of products since the start of the pandemic, it's hardly original or surprising any more.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Should only be for qualified people to buy.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Burning money isn't as affordable for most of us as it once was.

I'm putting the heating on for half an hour next weekend, limited ticket availability already to watch the pilot light through the little window, but I may do a live stream for those less fortunate.

You should be saving for a new boiler if yours has still got a pilot light and little window

 

[zefarelly]

I used to love bonfire/Guy Fawkes night as a kid . . . Miss the fires on the beach.

And luzzing bangers at each other, especially the red ones from france. 3-2-1 were crap

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

The joys of buying mini rockets and air bomb repeaters so I could be antisocial as a lad.

Bangers in tobacco tins.....excellent!

 

[LamieRobertson]

The joys of buying mini rockets and air bomb repeaters so I could be antisocial as a lad.

And jumping jacks/bangers that you could throw…..oops naughty


Used to fire air bombs out of tubes at the neighbours ….who were firing back mind

 

[METALMICKY]

The joys of buying mini rockets and air bomb repeaters so I could be antisocial as a lad.

Not forgetting dicing with death yourself with those totally unpredictable jumping jacks threatening to burn your ankles. And for year round anti social none better than those tiny French bangers that looked like mini sticks of dynamite!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Good policy. Feed the media with a predicted shortage and whack up the prices. So many have done just that with all sorts of products since the start of the pandemic, it's hardly original or surprising any more.

So it's the Fireworks industry who are now controlling the media. I guess they took over from the Petrol industry controlling the media in the last couple of weeks. I wonder what industry is going to take over controlling the media next

 

[zefarelly]

Not forgetting dicing with death yourself with those totally unpredictable jumping jacks threatening to burn your ankles. And for year round anti social none better than those tiny French bangers that looked like mini sticks of dynamite!

The tiny ones came in strings, let a dozen off was alike a machine gun, get it right and people would hit the deck in droves