First of all, I must confess that I saw the television version of the display, and this was probably better than the original. (This is not an entirely facetious remark as TV cameras can zoom and swoop all over the place whereas the spectator on the spot is rooted to the ground.)
Secondly, and at the risk of offending many, I think that firework displays are really for the young, children in particular. Also perhaps pickpockets.
Thirdly, insofar as they are for all of us, they are subject to the law of diminishing returns, condemned each year to provide a more lavish and extravagant show than the year before, in order to stimulate our jaded palates. And surely these displays, even the most spectacular of them, go on for too long. Three minutes is quite enough.
Fourthly, talk about bread and circuses. These extravaganzas must be inordinately expensive.
Still, there are worse things in life than firework displays!
Secondly, and at the risk of offending many, I think that firework displays are really for the young, children in particular. Also perhaps pickpockets.
Thirdly, insofar as they are for all of us, they are subject to the law of diminishing returns, condemned each year to provide a more lavish and extravagant show than the year before, in order to stimulate our jaded palates. And surely these displays, even the most spectacular of them, go on for too long. Three minutes is quite enough.
Fourthly, talk about bread and circuses. These extravaganzas must be inordinately expensive.
Still, there are worse things in life than firework displays!
Greetings Barnaby
ReplyDeleteI agree with all you say; maybe because we are more or less of the same generation and/or went to the same boarding school.
However the fireworks were also I think intended by Mayor Boris Johnson to be a final celebration of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games in London.
I hadn't thought of that, Jerry. Do you remember the firework displays at Beaumont?
ReplyDeleteIt did seem to us, possibly not so though, that the television display included the display seen in the summer?
ReplyDeleteWhich for a change seemed to be quite something.
But I do have to agree about the law of diminishing returns.
Two for the price of one, you mean? So, another reason for not bothering to venture out!
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