New Year's Fireworks

Chop71 wrote:

“I wish our government would save the $$$ and let people buy their own fireworks on Queens Birthday weekend.”

From Mount Taylor I saw a few rockets being fired last night around the Woden/Weston Creek area and they weren’t the official fireworks at City Walk.

We are GMT+11 hours actually, because of Gaylight Saving, but that doesn’t matter anyway. The point is, midnight here is the moment when the calendar here ticks over to the new day and the new year, and that is the whole point of celebrating!

Wait a minute we’re 10 hours ahead of GMT! were celebrating new years 10 hours too soon, someone stop everyone! oh my gosh I also just discovered that time is relative, guess it doesn’t matter then.

Two sets of fireworks are two times the fun, but we stay away from Civic for both.

I wish our government would save the $$$ and let people buy their own fireworks on Queens Birthday weekend.

If the 9pm ones were on at a more convenient time for families with young kids, it would still be light and there would be no point.

On a related matter, I wish they would move Skyfire to after the end of daylight saving!!

Let’s celebrate the New Year when it actually arrives, which is at midnight when the calendar date actually rolls over from 31/12 to 1/1, instead of jumping the gun by 3 hours.

I think it’s entirely understandable people with children don’t want to be hanging around civic at 12am on new-years eve or 12am in civic on any other night for that matter.

here’s a poem to go with your ponderings.

The year is fading fast,the end is almost here,so celebrate it properly,with champagne maybe a little beer, watching fireworks, bursting over the lake, you realy have to love, the photographs you take, so enjoy the day, and party at night, have agood time, do it right. (Happy New Year everyone.)

I’ve been to Orange.But I came back.