Bonfire Night 2021 is a go! Last night, I headed over to the back of McGovern Park in Ruislip to get some photographs of the fireworks display. I had planned to buy tickets, but they wanted a negative test for COVID, so I had to wait for the tests to arrive, and by the time they did, the tickets were sold out. I ended up in the park behind McGovern Park with about thirty or fourty families at least. I did not know just how close to the fireworks I was until they started going off. Then, after a couple of minutes, I looked down from my camera and the sky to see part of the tree and something on the ground on fire. I was being pelted by ash and bits of firework. I moved away and watched the place where I had been standing light up with more sparks that descended from the sky. Yes, so I am a novice at fireworks. They were banned privately with health and safety at large displays being strict. I made it out okay, though!
In terms of "Bonfire Night", it has become less about the bonfire and more about the fireworks. McGovern Park did have a bonfire that you could see through the fence, but there wasn't a place to get a good photograph of it. The shouts and voices from the funfair rides could be heard before the show.
Tonight, the Ruislip Rugby Club had their annual display, which was unable to go ahead last year. I was going to go, but I decided to watch them from afar. None of the photographs came out as good as the ones I took last night, but that was to be expected.
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