Hallow'een

SimonAH
SimonAH Posts: 3,730
edited October 2011 in Commuting chat
So do you bah humbug It as a Septic import or rock the spooky night?

It's the one festival we tend to really go to town on in this house, miniAH is practically levitating with excitement. :lol:
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,052
    Yep pumpkins have been suitably prepared, bucket full of sweets by the door. Mrs ITB has been busy baking spooky cakes and decorating the conservatory for tomorrows party for the little-un

    thankfully i will be at work and miss the whole thing :D
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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    I'm ambivalent about "Trick or treat".

    The kids enjoy going out and scrounging sweets from neighbours though. Sometimes I'll get into it and open my door to similarly scrounging kids; other times I ignore it. Really pisses me off when the older ones take more than their fair share, or kids who don't say thank-you. I do get some who grab the apples rather than the sweets though.

    On the other hand, I enjoy the pumpkin carving aspect. Done a few patterns from ZombiePumpkins.com over the years, such as Tigger and a Corpse Bride one.

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    These days I don't get home from work until about 7:30pm, so I'll probably miss most of the door-knocking anyway.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    The kids love it.

    I love it because there's more chocolate in the house. So, yeah, it rocks. :D
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  • Twisterboy
    Twisterboy Posts: 311
    Just tend to hid in the house, we're quite lucky not many kids live on our estate.

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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    had a knock on the door last night.... 2 small girls about 7 or 8 at the door... 'trick or treat'.... 'err...you're 2 days too early'... 'yeah, we're not allowed out on Monday, its a school night'

    Personally, I hate the commercialisation of festivals... nothing against those that wish to celebrate whatever... but this wholesale commercialisation and forcing down the throats of those that aren't interested... and I include Mother's day, fathers day and I recently saw cards for 'grandfather's day' ffs. Grumpy old rant over :)
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,297
    I'll be out this year, Specials live at Brixton. Daughter is going to a party at a friend. Son feels he's too old at 13. So he's on door duty.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,297
    Rules are that you can only knock if there is a pumpkin or similar on show indicating the occupants are willing to take part.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Rules are that you can only knock if there is a pumpkin or similar on show indicating the occupants are willing to take part.

    Yep. I bought lots of chocolate, but no pumpkin. Must have slipped my mind. :mrgreen:
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    My Addams Family recording works a treat - by the time I get to the door the little dears have usually fled
  • chilling
    chilling Posts: 267
    We like Halloween in our house. Here's this years pumpkin.

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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Love it here too. What the hell is all this Americanisation stuff, anyway? Guising has been going on on these shores since the 19th century.

    Here's my pumpkin this year:

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    I just feel glad that I don't have to try and carve a turnip, like my Dad used to. :lol:
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    It's got way too commercial - where's the mention now of summoning the forces of darkness and joining them in their hellish crusade? Kids these days . . .
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Giraffoto wrote:
    where's the mention now of summoning the forces of darkness and joining them in their hellish crusade?

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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    edited October 2011
    dhope wrote:
    Giraffoto wrote:
    where's the mention now of summoning the forces of darkness and joining them in their hellish crusade?

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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Nope, I'm in the grumpy camp. sod it.

    but i don't go for birthdays and the like much either so this is way down the scale.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    dhope wrote:
    Giraffoto wrote:
    where's the mention now of summoning the forces of darkness and joining them in their hellish crusade?

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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    MTB Night Ride tonight.... costume at the ready.... should be a laugh, other than it will be on the damp side!
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Call me old a grumpy old git if you like, but dressing small children up and then sending them out to beg from your neighbours doesn't sound like good grounding for their future. I would ask them what they are going to do in return for the sweats but that opens a different can of worms....

    I think the only knock if there is a pumpkin is local thing in some area, they don't do that round my way. That being said I think we are black listed as one Halloween my wife had eggs thrown at her riding her scooter home and nearly crashed, shortly after getting home and still very angry at what had just happened there was a knock on the door she had a few choice words aimed at the parents at the end of garden even though they had nothing to do with it. My wife knows she was is the wrong but it would appear they do knock any more.
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