Happy Halloween

Well we forgot to buy pumpkins until the last minute, and guess what? They'd sold out, everywhere, apart from a couple of pidgey ones in the supermarket which had already started to go mouldy. I wasn't so desperate, so we came home empty handed. 

However we did hit on the idea of carving a couple of melons, which had surprisingly good effects. We stocked up on a tin of sweets, the ones in the big red tub. Not mentioning particular brands, of course. Last year we were positively inundated by people coming in droves, at one point I suspected that they'd been dropped off by double decker bus there were so many of them. 

This year so far however there haven't been as many which might leave us with the unfortunate situation where there are sweets left over, what to do, what to do? We were lucky this year that we found lots of reduced price items in the supermarket, meaning we could get far more for our money. I felt happy because I could agree to more things, after all it is only for one day only, it seems silly spending a huge amount on costumes etc. Especially as we don't have too many more years of trick or treating left before the teenage off-spring get tired of the whole thing. 

I guess I am in two minds about halloween. I like the dressing up bit, (though some would argue that I don't need to, cheeky!) I quite enjoy going trick or treating, although I totally appreciate that it can be quite intimidating having people banging on the door in the dark. Especially if the first bunch of people that turn up come on a double decker bus like a plague of locusts and completely wipe out your supply of goodies in super fast time. 

The funniest thing was the time we were out trick or treating one year and a lady opened the door, we asked trick or treat and she replied 'I'll have a treat please!' nice one lady. We laughed and even now we tend to do the same, usually we get puzzled looks from the poor kids at the door who haven't a clue what we mean!

Happy Halloween everyone!