Subject: Trick or treaters

we got none. That's surrey for you!

My wife then ate about 2kg of smarties and made herself sick.

The fool.

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meh!

Did she go hyper? Some people go hyper by eating too many smarties.

a hyper missus? Not pretty. My mate had one of those in Asda once, very embarrassing.

Went out last night with my 8 yr old son, most people would not answer, some came to the door and shook their heads....what a disgrace, some people have no idea of fun anymore.

A minority were good fun, its a real shame.

I think the problem is not the fun. It is the extortion.

Giving kids sweets and stuff just to stop them posting dog poo through your letterbox is rubbish and should not be encouraged!

We should go with the thoroughly good fun of the Scots version, guising. All the kids have to earn the booty by reciting a poem or singing etc. It is much more fun, much more familial and much, much less american/pecuniary!

Sorry your nipper didn't have fun though...

I agree that Teenagers seem to ruin the fun for the Homeowners, but my son was only 8, I had my 1 yr old daughter in my arms dressed as a Pumpkin, how could we harm anybody?

Next year you should host a party for him with apple bobbing (dooking), eating treacle scones (brilliant and messy) and turnip carving as opposed to the yankee pumpkin. With alcohol aplenty for the adults and mixing in fireworks day I find it a brilliant night for everyone!

That's the way it used to be here...a selection of witch based songs, and you'd ring the doorbell or knock on the door and start singing. No singing, no treats. These days, even the ones that sing wait for you to open the door. I had two callers, and as neither of them were singing i didn't open the door to them.

Apple bobbing and ducking are two separate things here, though. I could never remember which way round they were. I'd guess apple ducking is putting apples in a bath or other large receptacle filled with water and you have to get the apple out as quickly as possible with your gob. Bobbing is with the apple attached to the ceiling/doorway by some string and you have to eat the apple without using your hands.

If I had any kids, they'd be out singing, followed by some shenanigans back at home. It'd be ace.
Shame I have no kids really.

If I had any kids, they'd be out singing, followed by some shenanigans back at home.

Ahem.

Anyway, all the bobbing business has reminded me of being a kid. I remember apples being in water and having to get them out via jaws impressions, but I think that was ducking. Who knows.

That last paragraph has served its purpose, then. The other response I was envisaging was:

Shame I have no kids really
"not for the kids"

And for the webcam audience.

At cubs, they had us passing the apples from neck to neck and elbow to elbow. Always struck me as a bit odd.

cubs?!

nuff said.

We have our national variant of Halloween. On the 11th of November. :)