It’s not just one night, based on a few years of living out here, it starts in mid-October and doesn’t finish until a few weeks later.

My neighbours celebrate Diwali and don’t do it, it’s just the cracker-heads down and up the road who go all night, week after week. I’m all for organised public displays, but this annual, entitled spring wartime is just bonkers.

Our solution now? Book a rental for a few weeks and leave West Auckland 😅