Happy Halloween 🎃 ?!!

I remember penny for the guy. Don't see it lately

We don’t get any children coming to where we live, it’s a bit out of the way from the main Street, so they tend to miss us out. No children live where we are any more, either.
I don’t celebrate it as such, but I do have a few pottery pumpkin shaped tea light holders that I’ve put out this week with little battery tea lights in them, to cheer the hearth. As I love autumn colours, I have a dried autumn flower display on the hearth and these little holders match my autumn theme a treat.

Diwali tonight too, watching fireworks

We stay in the dark these days, although we usually hear them calling on some of the neighbours. The village club usually has a competition for the fancy dress for the children and we always donate a prize for that.

All we've heard tonight is fireworks banging - three weeks of it so far and it's not even bonfire night yet.

I'm in Ireland where Halloween originated (I think). It's been traditional for hundreds of years here anyway, though some of the American aspects have been imported such as pumpkins instead of turnip lanterns.
This evening in the rural area where we live, we had some groups of children on their own, and others with adults in tow. The adults were offered a glass of wine and sat down for a chat before moving on to another house with the children - very sociable evening! OH would normally go out playing bridge on a Thursday but preferred to stay home and enjoy the visitors.

Unfortunately from my corner of the world, reports of teenagers and older children emptying sweets into back packs, usually from honesty tables as people cannot always answer doors, leaving non for others. What used to be a fun night for children, now spoilt by the greed of others. No I don't partake either. Once you've had cold water thrown over your child, you tend not too. !!!

Normally Hallowe'en is an excuse to cause trouble where I live. I was fully expecting to have eggs and mud thrown at the windows, but it's been quiet.

Shelflife

Halloween is not my thing . My DD and SIL make a big deal of it with their two young children. I bite my tongue and go along with their 'celebration' . Perhaps it's because when I was a child Halloween was not even mentioned. Am I alone in my thoughts, am I a fun basher ?

It was hardly a Thing at all when I was a child, but dds enjoyed it, and Gdcs even more so. Hence I spent much of Weds morning helping them (staying for much of half term) to carve a pumpkin face each (big, medium, small) before taking them home on Thursday morning - Gdd1 anxious to have plenty of time for dressing up and decorating - though dd and SiL had already been busy with (among other things) a massive spider and web on the outside of the house - courtesy of Tesco, apparently!

Many of those who knocked here last night wished us a "Happy Halloween".
"Trick or Treat" is the appropriate greeting as Halloween isn't a happy occasion, is it?

Anyway DGS2 took Mr P out and they got a good haul of sweets