I've always been puzzled by nations (yourselves and the French, specifically) who do your big fireworks parties in the summer. Even bearing in mind that your summer evenings are not as long as ours, I suspect that optimum viewing conditions come too late for comfort (my comfort, anyway - I'm an early bird).

They could have started as early as nine o'clock if all they had been waiting for was full dark and no wind. The problem is that they were waiting for ten-thirty and national broadcast.

Yay cousins!

They rock.