Happy Hallowe'en

Happy Hallowe'en to all those who bother with it and I hope you have many treats (not too sure about tricks since I seem to remember that there's a double entendre there). Don't eat too much candy - I always find I write rubbish when I'm on a sugar high! In the UK it is a rather low key celebration - if we bother with it at all - but tonight we are off next door so the kids can run around the garden in the dark and we can supervise and share a glass of wine or two.
British children don't seem to have got the idea of Trick or Treating. I've already had four hulking great lads in ski masks coming to the door demanding money - I gave them a biscuit each! Mike and his friend Robbie are off out shortly but have promised not to knock on doors - they are properly costumed in dark and rather impressive medieval gear, though Mike tends to dress like a Goth elf most days. Jenny's the star though. She has borrowed a black dress of mine - rather scary that it fits her, fewer sweets from now on - and is wearing a purple lace up basque over the top, a witches hat covered in kittens and several pounds of black makeup - she looks like a podgy Alice Cooper in drag!
Anyway, while I'm sitting sipping my soft red I'll be thinking of all of you having fun!

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Really REALLY pissed off now! I've just had to jump in the car and whizz down to the local garage to rescue one of my son's friends who has been duffed up by some of the local intelligentsia who took exception to his long hair and piercings. Luckily he wasn't much hurt and was fast enough on his feet to get away from them and take refuge somewhere public but - well - how DARE they! What business of theirs is it if he wants shoulder length hair and bits of metal here and there? I take extreme exception to their single figure IQs but I'm not going to whack them for it!! Grrrrr!