Halloween and Bonfire Night are two of my least favourite 'celebration days'. I'm not so keen on folk getting all dressed up and so I don't answer my door (I know I know I'm terrible) and I really don't like bonfire night. Fireworks are so beautiful to look at but so dangerous and so horribly noisy. The 'BANG' usually has me ducking for cover and my company in stitches.
Right now I work with people who have various disabilities ranging from very mild to severe. A lot of them do not like the constant explosions from above.
It makes my job a lot harder because as they all live in individual houses the staff are having to try to split themselves five or six ways in order to reassure everyone that things are ok. Some of the service users can't quite grasp that most of the displays are safe and most of the displays are organised. And that's because there's always a few odd ones who seem to ruin it for everyone, setting fireworks off in the streets, aiming them (yes this happened and yes it was on purpose) at someone in a wheelchair. All this to get a laugh from their friends? People have a strange idea of what's 'fun' these days.
When I was younger this time of year was magical. It's still magical to me now. I love the run up to Christmas, the countdown till the most wonderful day of my year! But I suppose that's another post for another day.
Have a good November!
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