Impromptu fireworks in the church garden this evening - thanks Frank!
Just popped over to B&Q ten minutes before closing and found them selling off hundreds of fireworks (why do ALL places overstock things, overproduce things and then rely on 3 for 2 offers? Just make less...) so he picked up four boxes and invited us and a few others over to let them off and burn a load of tree cuttings and generally garden things for an houor.
The kids thought it was fantastic, especially Elsie, who finds the stupid loud BANG ones all a bit 'jumpy' but tliked these small 'fizzy' ones no end.
I was on bonfire duty, which is always fun, and for an hour that we knew nothing about until ten minutes before hand it worked out really well.

Spontaneity has not entirely disappeared after all.