Monday 27 July 2015

Fireworks

In Japan because we are all responsible citizens, mature beyond our years, anybody can buy fireworks pretty much anywhere. That anybody includes Cian and that anywhere includes our local supermarket. Summer is fireworks season and evenings are filled with the joyous sounds of exploding gunpowder and the excited shrieks of kids (and adults too).
It always amaze me that in an otherwise highly safety conscious society (top speed on the roads, a languid 60 kph), young children are permitted to handle and enjoy what is basically live ordinance. Back home doing the same can get you arrested. But then again the way kids carry on with fireworks inn Ireland would probably get you arrested here too.




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