With just over two weeks to go until the Eleventh Night, there are promising signs it could be - whisper it - a relatively quiet bonfire season.
Early fears of a long, hot summer of discontent fusing loyalist frustration over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol with the annual pyres and parades has not materialised.
Although issues can flare up very quickly, at this stage it seems this will be another year in which bonfire controversies have been dialled down a notch.
