Fireworks and Fog

I believe I have perfectly captured the moment that I last saw any hint of the sun...



Eleven minutes past five, last Thursday afternoon. Since then it's been pretty miserable, to say the least.

Saturday night brought the City's annual fireworks display at the Downs. I doubled up on socks and jackets, and made the journey up the hill to meet Rosie and Josh. Josh will be three in January, so it was probably the first time he's seen fireworks and been old enough to enjoy them.

Traditionally I ruin fireworks displays by spending the entire time trying to take the perfect fireworks photograph with a shockingly inadequate camera, and no tripod (obviously essential). I have learned from experience not to bother trying, especially as it means watching most of the display on a two-inch screen, which surely defeats the whole point of watching fireworks.

So this year, I filmed it instead.

Just so that you could watch the display on a two-inch screen...



I also managed to capture the Grand Finale. Obviously my slightly camp enthusiasm at the end was for Josh's sake, who you can hear going "wooooo" when the camera pans to blackness.



Of course Sunday night was the turn of every family in Bedminster to have their own private display, and every kid to try and find the slack shopkeepers who will sell them rockets, so that they can fire them at each other across the street.

On Monday morning I woke up to this... My normal view across Bedmo obscured by thick fog. Notice the cat sitting on the neighbour's shed, who has no doubt just been for his morning shit in our cat-litter tray of a back garden. I have had a running battle throughout the summer with the neighbour's cats, which I'll no doubt get round to blogging one of these days.

Anyway, I mistakenly thought that it was nothing more than a post-fireworks fog that would clear by noon. I was wrong. It didn't clear all day. In fact it was still around this-morning, when I took these photos on my way into uni...







Yes, obviously my lecture didn't start until 9:47. Late? Me?