For the last few days since Christmas the number and noise volume of fireworks has been increasing steadily. No sooner does Christmas end than we start celebrating New Year’s with noise and a lot of it. It is still only the middle of the afternoon of December 31 but the fireworks are going off one after another.
Soon we will start our New Year’s Day ‘Midnight Mass’ at eight o’clock this evening. People are too afraid of the explosions later near midnight so we have to start and finish mass before nine o’clock. It is just not the danger and noise of the fireworks, but there is so much smoke that fills the air that you almost choke.
Again maybe this noise adds a little more excitement to an otherwise drab and poor New Year’s celebration.