I was fortunate enough to be invited out to a friends place to see the fireworks last night. They happen to own the penthouse apartment on the river front with an awesome view of nearly all the fireworks. The fireworks are launched from numerous sites along the river so being able to see all of them is really quite unusual. Better yet though, one of the launching barges is positioned directly in front on the balcony as if it were a private show just for us. That particular barge this year had some issues launching it’s fireworks. There were about three sections where all the other barges launched fireworks in unison but “our barge” sat there doing nothing. Apparently it was unplanned because at the end our barge suddenly started firing off every firework it had missed all at once. A display that was intended to take about 10 minutes was sent up in about a minute flat. Extremely impressive! Also impressive was the dump and burn which was close enough to feel the heat hit you and felt like you could just reach out and catch the plane. I’ve never been overly impressed by fly-bys when standing at ground level at South Bank but from the penthouse it really is quite an experience. Oh, and Iain has photos.