Two nights of after-midnight fireworks displays have left people baffled and slightly discombobulated in the past 48 hours.
It is thought the rather impressive displays have been lit in the city centre, with much speculation about the cause of them.
Many have pointed to people celebrating the Chinese New Year, while TV and radio presenter Carol Vorderman, who said one display seemed to happen right outside her home, said she preferred to imagine it was a declaration of love.
The displays began at around 9.40pm on Thursday evening, and appear to have been centred on the Castle Park area of the city.
The pyrotechnics went on for a while, and were captured on camera by residents as far away as Wapping Wharf, and heard as far away as Bedminster and Redland.
But later after midnight on Thursday night, and again at around 12.30am on Friday night, even bigger displays took place, again in the Castle Park area.
“I was watching TV on Thursday night when the first fireworks went off,” said one resident of Wapping Wharf. “I didn’t know of any celebrations going on at the time, but you do hear fireworks occasionally where I live so it didn’t bother me, although it was a bit tiresome when they started up again past midnight.
“The first round lasted about five minutes at around 9.40pm on Thursday. Then we heard them start up again on Friday night, and they were unusually loud, to be honest,” she added.
Friday’s night’s fireworks were captured on film by Steven Watson, who said they started cracking off at around 12.30am and lasted for ages.
It isn’t known whether the same fireworks display also work Vorders from her slumbers, but it sounds likely.
She wrote about it on Twitter with a particularly philosophical, very Bristol, take on the whole thing.
“I was woken last night by someone letting off fireworks right outside my house,” Carol Vorderman said on Saturday morning.
“I lay still and thought ‘well, it’s some lad showing off to his girlfriend and good for him’, I like people being happy, it’s nearly Valentine’s.
"And then I thought of the people who’d lived in my old house over the years, for whom sounds like that would have meant much worse, including devastating bomb raids in the last war, and I fell back asleep being thankful and knowing just how lucky I am,” she added.
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