The Official Nonsense Thread

[Caspin]

Minty, I do not like the sound of your new workplace. Are you looking for alternatives or do you need to give yourself a break from job hunting for a while? Sometimes you sound like Eyore in his gloomy place.

I am going to see a fireworks display tonight. Usually I just look out of the window, it's been ages since I went to a proper organised display. The last one I went to was up on a hill. Everything was fine while the fireworks were going off, then suddenly the event ended and everything was pitch black. Getting down off the hill in the dark and rain was perilous. Tonight's is just in a school field near where I live, so it should be slightly less complicated to find my way home. I will have a torch in my pocket just in case.

The neighbours in the house next door usually have a load of rockets and so on (they must be absolutely loaded given the cost of those things) but unfortunately they are pretty incompetent. One year they set fire to a small hedge when a lantern fell over at a bonfire night party (imagine keeping control of a bonfire but being ultimately endangered by a tealight!), another year they ignited a bush when a rocket failed to launch vertically (sorry, that sounds a bit dodgy), another time their party came to an abrupt end and I could hear screaming and then silence. Presumably someone picked up a hot sparkler or something stupid. Anyway, it's probably safer to be further away from that house tonight!