Mrs Wells and I are in the Top End on hols. That is the Northern Territory in Australa Tonight we are in Darwin and they are celebrating Territory Day which is in remembrance of attaining self govt in 1978. Anyway as we drove into town it seemed every second store was selling fireworks. 2 for 1 at Acme fireworks – Roadrunner where are you ? They can only buy them and let them off on this one day of the year and as I type a lot of them are doing just that. With apologies to those who have experienced the real thing it is like a war zone the pop pop in the background punctuated by the squeal of a rocket passing overhead. Been going on for hours. The last time I had access to fireworks to blow up the neighbours letter box was in the seventies. So my question is – how common is the availability of fireworks these days ?