TIM WEBSTER'S 2001 DISPLAY

It seemed that we had lots of local competition; in fact one display, not very far away, contained a large amount of Cat 4 stuff (loads of shells and very big cakes.) Several of Tim's neighbours were watching from their upstairs windows and amongst these were numerous children. This meant that the "audience" could be critical; hopefully we had the fireworks to impress them.

Once into the flow of things, we needn't have worried, the spectators were really involving them selves in the sport of "guessing what came next" and awarding marks for the best ones. Audience participation was very high and because of this I really began to enjoy myself. As you know kids say what they think and when the first Jordan's Ball rocket went up, their immediate reaction was to award it 10 out of 10 at the top of their voices.

They thought that Sky Monkey was very good as well. Once or twice when we fired some very small and not very impressive fireworks their attention drifted off to the other local displays, but it was our challenge to then fire something decent to grab their attention back.

At the end of the display we had rounds of applause from nearby, but also from every garden several houses away. Once this had died down and we had taken our bow, someone from the distance shouted "Nice one Tim".

From my point of view I have not enjoyed a display as much as this (as a firer) for a long time. What really made it for me was seeing how much the kids enjoyed it and the smile on their faces said it all..

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