Trumping A Big Boom
Autumn… Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness… and damp and foggy and cold and dark and miserable and sod it, let’s just hibernate until nice things return, yeah?
We-ell, as much as we’d all like to pull the duvet over our heads for the next six months, it’s not really an option, so let’s make the best of it with fun. Happily, the city is enabling you to do just that over a few glorious days.
If you secretly long for the innocent days of trick or treating in a not very convincing home made costume and fake blood, but fear you no longer have the youthfulness to pull this off without the police being called, then Spooky City on 31st October has you covered. Meeting outside the Forum at six, it’s then a short walk (or parade) of everyone in their best scary outfits* to Chapelfield Gardens where ghoulish goings on and paranormal playtimes are being sorted.
Not in the mood for dressing up, but still want to go out for free stuff? The Big Boom fireworks display is back at the top of the castle on Friday 3rd November from 19:30. Expect the usual noise and magnificence your dad could only dream of when he used to set off feeble little wet fart dribbles of rockets in your back garden whilst you wrote your name with a sparkler and decided that toffee apples taste of pointless disappointment. This is a Proper Display that if you are feeling especially wanky, you could describe as ‘son et lumiere’. But please don’t.
So, autumn. Cheerless, dark & deadly. Apart from in this fine city.
*My genius idea for this would be for the entire population of Norwich to turn up on Millennium Plain dressed up as Donald Trump. Seriously. Can you imagine anything more terrifying than an army of Trumps, men, women, children? All you need is a suit and a mop head on your bonce. Possible bonus side effect: on hearing about it, Trump runs away to hide forever, because who wouldn’t be scared shitless by this?
