Six months of planning, four hours of setting up, £2k of fountains, cakes, mines, sparklers, rockets, and then 30 minutes of rain just as we finished setting up resulted in 75% of the finale failling to go off. Bugger. Luckily we had so much pyro that the audience didn’t notice.

The rest of the night was spent with old friends, a glass or three of decent alcohol, chlli, music from the Sugar Hill Gang, Butthole Surfers and others, and discussions on Planet of the Apes, dead vs live comedians and the worlds worst dictator. A good evening by anyones’ standards.

We did burn the duds the next day though - carefully corralled in place with bales and pallets, cover in straw and lit with a cheeky pair of upside down fountain/mines which meant the we were a good 100m away when it all went up like an ammo dump.

[No pics of the display yet - I was too busy dodging barrages and setting off the rockets].

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