As I left the house at stupid-o'clock last week, I made the random decision to tweet my whole day. This is what it's like to work on a firework show - oh, the glamour!
6am Up and out of the house wearing thermals + carrying many layers of clothing. It's going to be a cold, wet day.
7am Meet at the yard, load personal kit onto vans, say hi to firers heading out on
different shows #fireworks #dayinthelife
8am Pause at services for breakfast. Weather starting to turn... #fireworks
#dayinthelife
9am 20 mins from site and the heavens have opened. It's going to be a
cold, wet rig #fireworks
#dayinthelife
10am Unload pyro. 56 boxes! #fireworks
#dayinthelife
11:30am Rigging the 5" and 6" shells #fireworks
#dayinthelife
1:30pm Wind 1, Gazebo 0 :( #fireworks
#dayinthelife
2:30pm Wired in most of the fireworks. Rain seems to have paused #fireworks
#dayinthelife
3pm #fireworks #dayinthelife current
clothing: full set of thermals, jeans, wproof troos, 2 pairs skiing socks,
fleece, hoodie,...
...body warmer, wproof coat, buff, hat, gloves, snow boots. #fireworks #dayinthelife
4:30pm Safety briefing and a million yellow tabards #fireworks
#dayinthelife
5:45pm We
have pushed three vans back along the muddy track. Now time to suit up (PPE)
and wait... #fireworks #dayinthelife
7pm Usher people out of the fall out zone and prepare for
fiting. Sustem armed. Crowd count down... #fireworks #dayinthelife
7:15pm Someone (not me) pressed go and the show fired.
7:45pm wait for 15mins cool down and safety check #fireworks #dayinthelife
8:50pm van stuck in mud - 12 crew pushing! #fireworks #dayinthelife
10pm A long derig, including a defender row for one of the
vans and lots of pushing. Finally leaving site #fireworks #dayinthelife
10:10pm Spoke too soon. Last van stuck. More pushing and
towing required. #boggyfield #fireworks #dayinthelife
11:15pm On the road. Just need to drive the van back to the
yard, then pick up the car and drive home! #fireworks #dayinthelife
Midnight Very brief stop in motorway services to switch
driver (we are a bit tired!) 12:30 Back at yard #fireworks #dayinthelife
1:40am Home at last. Unpack car and stumble bed-wards, via a
quick cup of tea. Going to ache tomorrow! #fireworks #dayinthelife
Last tweet before I finally succumb to sleep. @FitbitUK + #fantasticfireworks
(@KRTFireworks) =
a LOT of exercise...
And to round the post off, here's a great photo of the show taken by Alan Ranger:
2 comments:
Wow! What a lot of time and effort goes into one of these fabulous shows. I had no idea!
I saw the fireworks at Kenilworth Castle too at about 6 o'clock. I was off to meet my paper now org friend when I saw flashes in the sky. I assumed someone is celebrating an occasion and moved on to my way.
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