Throughout the whole of town there was the constant bangs, wizzes and whooshes as the night sky became a canvas for colours and sparks.  Some were so loud, sending rumbles throughout the gound and lighting up the night like a blast from an atomic bomb, that I am sure these were from some black market seller.

While not as dramatic, we had our own fireworks display courtesy of Cosar and Bron (friends of Karen and Graeme) who declined the $300 family box and settled for the small sampler box.  The night was spent with the adults lighting fuses and running light frightened children laughing and giggling all the way.

This brought back fond memories when we could all buy fireworks.  As a little boy I would purchase throw downs and bungers on the way to school and every lunch time there would be a war as children hurled firey explosives at each other. In the evening we would gather in the street with "ball shooters" seeing who could shoot each other. Then on the weekend we would pull apart any fireworks that were to small to cause any damage and mix them together and tape them into a tube making some finger removing bomb.  It is no wonder every afternoon the News was full of stories of children being maimed and things being blown up. I am sure this will still be the case in the NT News tomorrow.

A late night re packing them to bed with the sound from last nights power station being replaced by the explosions and bangs of fireworks late in to the night.

POST SCRIPT: just heard a news break that someone had been seriously injured in Darwin as a result of fireworks. Alice springs also reported there were only seven hundred 000 emergency calls which is a marked improvement to the 2000 calls last year. Only in the Northern Territory