Happy Halloween 🎃 ?!!

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

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!

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.

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. !!!

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.

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.

Diwali tonight too, watching fireworks

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.

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

With the hour difference we haven't started ours yet, but I have seen photos of my GC in their costumes for their school parties. Home made robots with boxes, tin-foil and lights, what fun!

We have a lot of stairs coming up to the house (25), so don't get a lot of trick-or-treaters. I have candy enough for 50, but will most likely get around 20-25. The town does a fireworks show at 8:15, so my lights will be off by then.

Seriously , I don't it. Part of the relentless lemming like drive to conform and consume. The 2 demi Gods of modern society.

Thank you Jasper .

The tinies have been in 😄😄😄. It wasn’t even dark. One dressed as a goul the other a little devil. Wish I could post the photo we took, they looked delightful. I pretended to be frightened and the little devil took his mask off “Don’t worry - it’s me!”

Dear little souls.

I am now munching through the sweets they left.

They were then off to a Halloween party.

Love the 🐶 and the 🎂. No trick or treating here but they all seem to be going to 🎊 parties

Posted too soon jasper

Should you read other threads, more knowledgeable GN’s than I will explain that it’s not imported rubbish,
I also know that both my DDs keep their decorations from one year to the next.

jasper. You might enjoy Mae’s thread more!

I don't like Halloween normally at all but yesterday .......
(slightly pre Halloweeny) something wonderful happened in the tiny little wood in the our village.
While walking our old dog we were followed by three little trick or treaters. They scampered noisily behind us( trying to spook us, gigging madly. ☺ One was dressed as a very fat, square tomato, one was a giant bright,bright green pea &
one was a square-shaped funny mummy. They were only about 8 or so & truly terrible at being quiet or sneaky or scary! It was a lovely daft happy moment. 😊

I was pleased to give four or five local children sweets a little while ago after being stuck in for nearly three weeks after surgery. I don’t have a pumpkin outside, but an orange Halloween garland over the door and a little lantern I hung from a tree.
I thought my neighbour’s children would come round as usual, but the family know I’m still recovering, so maybe they don’t want to bother me. There’s still time yet!
A poster on another thread said that the old tradition was to recite a poem or something, now that I do agree with👍
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There wasn't Halloween when I was a child but I did like penny for the guy. Anyone remember making stuffed guys and going round houses with them in old pushchair or handmade go karts ?

Lovely spooky cake!

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 ?

No, it's made up , imported rubbish. Landfill.

We’ve had a few, but we’re out earlier, my daughter made a cake at her house.

I’ve had loads knocking tonight sorry but I’m a misery and don’t answer the door.

I love it!
I live in a very small village and know most of the children, absolute pleasure to have them knock at my door.

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 ?