Friday, October 31, 2003
HALLOWE'EN! The English (at least around here) are ambivalent about this festival ( if that's what it is). The kids know that they are onto a good thing and the adults know that they are on to a loser whatever way that they turn. In our road the kids, from 10 to 15, really get into it and, unlike the sad 'penny for the guy' practioners, make a real effort. That is, their mums do!
Suffice to say, we had our ghoulish display in the window with candles and pumpkin. This is the traditional Hallowe'en way of saying, "I'm a doormat, walk over me." Be that as it may, we had the sweets ready fro the knock on the door. Heck it's so much better those ineffectual carol singers that we will be blackmailed by come the end of November!
I said that the rains would come eventually and they have for the past two days, some mighty downpours but I doubt if it was more than 3 inches in total - hardly enough to avoid a hosepipe ban over Christmas!
Suffice to say, we had our ghoulish display in the window with candles and pumpkin. This is the traditional Hallowe'en way of saying, "I'm a doormat, walk over me." Be that as it may, we had the sweets ready fro the knock on the door. Heck it's so much better those ineffectual carol singers that we will be blackmailed by come the end of November!
I said that the rains would come eventually and they have for the past two days, some mighty downpours but I doubt if it was more than 3 inches in total - hardly enough to avoid a hosepipe ban over Christmas!
