General Chat

Polly, it probably tastes nice. :-D
I am the sort of granny who, if the grandchildren bring Haribo sweets around, ask them to eat them in the garden. I can't stand the smell! :-|

As for Monster Munch - they're banned!!

Maggie you are so naughty ?? ?? ?? I buy the good stuff it's never wasted. <3

Maggie you are so naughty ?? ?? ?? I buy the good stuff it's never wasted. <3

Polly - I buy the nastiest stuff (whose trick or treat ;-) ) and wouldn't give my grandchildren such stuff :-0

when my Dad was little, about six or seven, he and his brother, one year older, went out "haunting" on Halloween. This would have been around 1919/20

my gran dressed them up in white sheets with flour on their faces and off they went - they lived by the Glamorganshire Canal which had lots of little hump back bridges over it. They decided to lie low on the far side of the hump and wait for footsteps coming along the towpath - this had disastrous consequences

as the footsteps got close they hovered up of the bridge out of the mist and made howling noises - horrendous screams broke out from the victim - a local female resident, whose brother had committed suicide off that very bridge a few years earlier.- not only was she frightened to death but they were too - they ran home immediately, told my grand what had happened and she quickly cleaned them up and told them to keep their mouths shut and go back out to see what was happening - they went back up the towpath and followed a posse of angry men armed with sticks and arrived at a nearby house where a woman could be seen through the window, lying back in a chair being ministered to by her family - the posse was out for blood and the whole thing was written up in the local newspaper the next day - they never breathed a word :-D

none tonight - that's 20 bags of crisps for the church sale tombola in 2 weeks time!

Maggie I still have plenty of the "treats" left, but with five little grandchild they won't go to waste.

We spent the day carving pumpkins then went out to dinner and missed all the guisers.
Eldest daughter spent 20 mins carving an excellent wolf, howling at the moon.

Youngest spent more than 4 hours on her Harry Potter inspired masterpiece.
She etched one face with a Dementor a with carved a stag ( Patronus) onto the back.
One torch and one light was placed inside
( My new avi is the result)

We ate at a Mexican restaurant
As tomorrow is All Souls Day or Day of The Dead, the staff were all dressed and painted like decorated skulls ( dias de muertos)

We had a great day!

I ended up getting four groups - ranging between groups of 3 up to 6.
These were the children of children I had known when I was a Learning Support Assistant, so, although I had no 'indicators' out - they knew I was 'safe'.

I had some Haribo stuff for them.

I still have some left. Normally, I take them to work, as I hate them, but am currently unemployed (temp job ended, hospital appointments deferred for 4 months while I worked needing to be attended etc) ......
Let's hope the temp agency comes up something soon, so I can get rid of them........

Ive loved every minute of tonight seeing the lovely costumes
Baby Satan wont dress up

So after everybody went we had a pizza
from the pizza shop 6 doors down from us :-D :-D :-D

Three more lots tonight, thank gawd that's over.

Grandchildren looked lovely but they do adhere to the lighted pumpkin rule. As they go out in a large group with parents they don't annoy anyone.

Then it's off to the local pub for food and a disco..lolol

Himself and me were snuggled under our blankies
:-D

The rule where we live seems to be if you want to have Trick or Treat callers you put a pumpkin or some other T&T decoration in the window and they will call, if you don't have anything in the window they will walk on by. I put my bit of decoration in the front porch, and within a few within a few minutes we started to have a steady stream of little children, all dressed delightfully, with their parents standing at the top of the drive. When we were ready to have dinner, I turned out the lights and removed the decorations, and the children stopped coming. It was fun and I enjoyed it, leaving my lovely OH cooking our dinner.

Crikey Sylvia,,,,,,,,not heard anything like that over here with home made or even being put in shop bought,,,,,,,,,,,,how awful ,,,,,but the children are mainly from 1 or 2 roads away and I am known to most of the parents......I just cut 2 inch bits of apple and dunked in toffee all were clinged filmed of course.

Since the US mania of trick or treat became a must do over here..........,,,,,,,,31st was a night for being naughty. ;-) :-D :-D.

We just had two teenage girls, very pretty in fancy dress and very poiite., not many little ones rond here now.

There is an 'unspoken' rule around here

If you have kids of an age, then ToT

If they are older kids. it's not a done thing

Stella they will be wanting Vodka ;-) ;-)

I have had to stuff Dobby's ears with cotton wool
the fireworks where driving her nuts :-( :-(

all the little ones have gone now, it seems that we have a lot of teenagers coming round, don't think they will want Haribos..lol

A lot of fireworks going off...

Kay ...


we haven't anywhere near that many for several years, and in fact have mainly had older kids coming around 8 or 9 pm .............. so we're not too unhappy about "cancelling" it this year so we can go out and finally have our Anniversary dinner that was postponed in August because I wasn't too well.


BUT ........... over here, we now NEVER make homemade treats to give out at the door. It might still be done in very small places where everyone knows everyone else, but certainly not in the towns and cities.

It all comes down to idiots who put "extras" into the goodies they made ...... like marijuana, razor blades, needles etc.

Kids now take their spoils home, and the parents will go through everything in there ................. homemade gets thrown out immediately, any candies or candy bars that are unwrapped or with wrappings that look as though they might have been interfered with, also go into the garbage.

Again, that is because every year some nasty will add something to the candies they give out.


I think that is why we have so many less children than we used to have ............. parents will take them to malls, parties, or drive to the houses of relations and friends, instead of walking the neighbourhood.
It's a terribly suspicious world we live in.

well,,,,,3 large bowls of bad for teeth sweets and home made small toffee apple bites later ,,,,,,,the pointy warted nosed little witches and scary made-up fanged little wizards have nearly all departed and all well mannered,,,,,,,of course each one got told they were the scariest of the night,,,,,,,, ;-) :-D.......some had buckets bigger than themselves.......... :-D :-D.

there was a bad house fire here on Thursday evening ........

........ "kids" (maybe late teens early 20s) had been letting off fire crackers and roman candles in an intersection.

One must have gone onto the porch of a nearby house 'cos there was another big bang, and it was on fire.

No-one was injured, thank heaven

The house was 105 years old (old for here), and the firework has caused over $500,000 (over £200,000) worth of damage to what had been a beautifully restored and maintained house. That probably means the house will have to be demolished.


Three or four people were seen running away and jumping into a car when that big bang happened.

The police are regarding it as arson, and have a description of some of the guys and of the car.