What will your Halloween festivities be today? We’ll be getting alot of trick or treaters coming to our door later tonight - but fear not! Sweeties are at the ready!! phew
I suppose it’s more of a time for kiddies I guess with their costumes and games like bobbing for apples or finding the ring in the bareen brack!! But I do suspect that like myself there are those of you out there who still love this time of the year and make the most of it!
So what is it like in your neck of the woods? Did you carve a pumpkin? Let’s see it! Do you put up decorations? Tell us your spooky stories! (additional respect points for something scary)
Thankfully, my wife runs a sweet (candy) shop so we use the opportunity to pass out loads sweets to the locals. We’re also blessed with a pretty nice, well mannered, neighbourhood - which usually means all our ‘visitors’ are folk we know.
These should be an adequate amount to bribe the little terrors.
til midnight Maleika? Jeeze the cut off point here is anywhere between 9pm & 10pm - most kids “real kids” are in bed at that time!! You get the ocassional teenager going around but IMO they are just too big for all that trick or treating - especially if there are a big group of them, they can be quite intimidating plus they sometimes come around twice grrrr - if you don’t give anything they don’t retaliate in my neighbourhood thankfully - I guess if they did then yeah it would be war! €20 on sweets? Jeeze that’s a lot - you must have tons of sweets?!
@Anythony - GC suits you I was going to say OMG when I saw that pic until I read about your wife wow yes quite the upper hand you have there over all us mere mortals at this time of the year but goodluck getting rid of those jelly beans eehew!
For those of you who didn’t do a pumpkin this year I’ll share mine :pumpkin: I’ve just carved it, what do you think? Scary or what!!! Btw, I forgot just how blooming stinky those pumpkins were… Pew!!!
@crazy close…very close - I don’t look much different, maybe even a bit more orangey
@Maleika now don’t start!!
Wow @ 6lbs!! That’s a lot of candy! If you spent €20 on sweeties here you’ll have a whole truck load of sweeties - I thought you had LIDL or ALDI over there too? They’re very good for stuff like that!
@AnthonySterling: is being informed by @AndreaSterling that’s socially unacceptable to be standing outside his house waiting to give sweets to children.
@AnthonySterling: is being informed by @AndreaSterling that’s socially unacceptable to be standing outside his house waiting to give sweets to children.
The wife made me bag up about ~30 bags of sweets for the visiting children, this took about 1 hour.
We watched through the window, an almost unending chain of children work their way down the street. Visiting each of our neighbours, greeting them with a rather loud ‘TRICK OR TREAT!’ as they opened their door.
Like a poor thriller movie, they gradually, got closer and closer, louder and louder…
Only to bloody bypass our house all together! :headbang:
Every single bloody one of them.
Despite me going to the door to try and entice them back, said wife, advised it may not be a good idea. You know, actually coaxing children back to your house on the promise of sweets.
spence - yeah it’s not everyone’s cup of tea - I saw a few neighbours close their blinds for the night earlier than usual
@Saul & BLZ - I was wondering who would pick up on that It was the only one that looked a bit scary plus I’m peeved that I’m all grown up now and I miss all the trick or treating
@Maleika - Jeeze you little lazy thing, how far is too far? Btw, did your €20 last you til midnight or did you turn into a :pumpkin:
@Anthony - You’re wife is probably right, strange though that the kids passed by - perhaps it’s those jelly beans afterall - who eats those anyway?
€20 on sweets? Jeeze that’s a lot - you must have tons of sweets?!
wow yes quite the upper hand you have there over all us mere mortals at this time of the year but goodluck getting rid of those jelly beans 
eehew! 
