Sunday, November 06, 2005
Sparks and Squibs
Friday night was fun. It was Nick's birthday on Thursday, so we went out for a meal at Wetherspoons, who do a surprisingly good steak (rare in several senses), and then on for a brief pub crawl, comprising 5 different pubs, and a man who drinks faster than D-Something.
On to Saturday. After a less-than-enjoyable few hours in work wrestling with reassurance, I met up with Nick and Tara again near the Minster in time for the fireworks display to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up the government. The Minster always looks good, but the past week it has been spectacular. It's been illuminated as part of the celebrations, and someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to match the lighting to the stonework. Sadly ,y photos are a little blurry, as I didn't have a tripod (and Nick's head is attached, ultimately, to only 2 legs), and 2-second exposures never work well otherwise!
One thing not quite so spectacular was the firework display itself. The council have been building it up for several weeks - it was to be at a secret location, but one where everyone within the city centre could see it. So, entirely expectedly, several thousand people descended on the Minster, it being one of the larger open spaces within the walls. Realising that it blocked out half of the sky, we decided to make our way down to the river as the fireworks were about to start. However, there were so many people there that we couldn't actually move.
As the fireworks started, everyone began to move down towards the Museum Gardens. It was pretty obvious the display was somewhere out to the west of the city, and that's the obvious place to go. The council, however, had other ideas. They appeared to have held them somewhere out by St Peter's School, which makes sense as Guy Fawkes attended it. It makes less sense as a place to let fireworks off if you want anyone in the city centre to see them though! While we did get to see some of the display, it wasn't easy, we missed about the first half of it and had to fight our way through crowds of people to get anywhere with a line of sight on it.
On to Saturday. After a less-than-enjoyable few hours in work wrestling with reassurance, I met up with Nick and Tara again near the Minster in time for the fireworks display to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up the government. The Minster always looks good, but the past week it has been spectacular. It's been illuminated as part of the celebrations, and someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to match the lighting to the stonework. Sadly ,y photos are a little blurry, as I didn't have a tripod (and Nick's head is attached, ultimately, to only 2 legs), and 2-second exposures never work well otherwise!
One thing not quite so spectacular was the firework display itself. The council have been building it up for several weeks - it was to be at a secret location, but one where everyone within the city centre could see it. So, entirely expectedly, several thousand people descended on the Minster, it being one of the larger open spaces within the walls. Realising that it blocked out half of the sky, we decided to make our way down to the river as the fireworks were about to start. However, there were so many people there that we couldn't actually move.
As the fireworks started, everyone began to move down towards the Museum Gardens. It was pretty obvious the display was somewhere out to the west of the city, and that's the obvious place to go. The council, however, had other ideas. They appeared to have held them somewhere out by St Peter's School, which makes sense as Guy Fawkes attended it. It makes less sense as a place to let fireworks off if you want anyone in the city centre to see them though! While we did get to see some of the display, it wasn't easy, we missed about the first half of it and had to fight our way through crowds of people to get anywhere with a line of sight on it.
posted by Chip : 23:51
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