All Hallows
- Thread starter Beachlover
- Start date
MaC
Moderator
Just driven home from the hospital. My bother was taken in again this morning, by ambulance this time since he couldn't get breath enough to climb into his pal's landrover. Anyway, he's on oxygen and drips and stuff, but we came home and end house (we live the other end of the block of three) has this enormous spider web draped from the bedroom window right over to the footpath. Big spider on it.
Cool, but, it's not Hallowe'en for weeks yet. This is getting to be like Christmas in September at this rate
Totally spoils the excitement of it being one night of mischief and dark and outside to play and well, showing my age here, dookin' for apples, lanterns, guisin' and toffee apples and treacle scones and party pieces and bags of nuts and sweets.
Now it's demands and the whole damned country on a sugar rush.
It's lost it's joy.
M
Cool, but, it's not Hallowe'en for weeks yet. This is getting to be like Christmas in September at this rate
Totally spoils the excitement of it being one night of mischief and dark and outside to play and well, showing my age here, dookin' for apples, lanterns, guisin' and toffee apples and treacle scones and party pieces and bags of nuts and sweets.
Now it's demands and the whole damned country on a sugar rush.
It's lost it's joy.
M
Beachlover
Moderator
Local shop had toffee apples for sale yesterday. I take your point though Mary and won’t post my usual Santa cartoon until at least the second week of December.Just driven home from the hospital. My bother was taken in again this morning, by ambulance this time since he couldn't get breath enough to climb into his pal's landrover. Anyway, he's on oxygen and drips and stuff, but we came home and end house (we live the other end of the block of three) has this enormous spider web draped from the bedroom window right over to the footpath. Big spider on it.
Cool, but, it's not Hallowe'en for weeks yet. This is getting to be like Christmas in September at this rate
Totally spoils the excitement of it being one night of mischief and dark and outside to play and well, showing my age here, dookin' for apples, lanterns, guisin' and toffee apples and treacle scones and party pieces and bags of nuts and sweets.
Now it's demands and the whole damned country on a sugar rush.
It's lost it's joy.
M
Hope your brother responds to treatment and recovers soon.
MaC
Moderator
Thank you 
He is, well, he's floored with this. Third time he's been hospitalised in the last six weeks. It's not getting better. Something needs to change, but that's up to him and his Doctors.
We'll hope, and we'll see.
I think dragging out the day makes it lose it's delight, it's true excitement. Same thing with MayDay, or bonfire night. It's one day, one night. Christmas was twelve days, the New year was hogmanay and ne'er day.....and now they're run into a month (+ earlier shops full of stuff) of glutinous gimmicky waste.
I thoroughly enjoy every change of season, and the rites thereof, but to make the entirety of Winter into Christmas time is pretty grim.
Now Hallowe'en looks like it's going to be the entirety of October
I know, I'm getting old.
He is, well, he's floored with this. Third time he's been hospitalised in the last six weeks. It's not getting better. Something needs to change, but that's up to him and his Doctors.
We'll hope, and we'll see.
I think dragging out the day makes it lose it's delight, it's true excitement. Same thing with MayDay, or bonfire night. It's one day, one night. Christmas was twelve days, the New year was hogmanay and ne'er day.....and now they're run into a month (+ earlier shops full of stuff) of glutinous gimmicky waste.
I thoroughly enjoy every change of season, and the rites thereof, but to make the entirety of Winter into Christmas time is pretty grim.
Now Hallowe'en looks like it's going to be the entirety of October
I know, I'm getting old.
ElThomsono
VIP Member
I've never had a toffee apple, they sound disgusting, can anyone comment?
Beachlover
Moderator
Used to be given them as a kid. My recollection is eating the toffee and flinging the apple on a stick.
BorderReiver
Moderator
Every old festival has been hijacked by greedy corporations. I would love to see a total ban on promotional advertising.Thank you
He is, well, he's floored with this. Third time he's been hospitalised in the last six weeks. It's not getting better. Something needs to change, but that's up to him and his Doctors.
We'll hope, and we'll see.
I think dragging out the day makes it lose it's delight, it's true excitement. Same thing with MayDay, or bonfire night. It's one day, one night. Christmas was twelve days, the New year was hogmanay and ne'er day.....and now they're run into a month (+ earlier shops full of stuff) of glutinous gimmicky waste.
I thoroughly enjoy every change of season, and the rites thereof, but to make the entirety of Winter into Christmas time is pretty grim.
Now Hallowe'en looks like it's going to be the entirety of October
I know, I'm getting old.
MaC
Moderator
I loved them. Crispy sweet toffee and a juicy apple
Folks dipped the apple on the stick in the pan of hot toffee and lifted it out to sit on it's end.....sometimes you got a huge thick puddle of toffee around your apple. I wasn't so keen on that hard thing, I liked the thin crispy layer and the apple.
Jaggededge
Explorer
I'm the same as kev. Used to eat the toffee and bin the apple.
MaC
Moderator
Philistines !!
Tanghulu is much nicer, but don't see it in the UK.
The supermarket close to me has Halloween themed and Christmas food out.
Beachlover
Moderator
They were.
Beachlover
Moderator
Andylaser
Administrator
Beachlover
Moderator
Beachlover
Moderator
Beachlover
Moderator
MaC
Moderator
A friend has just sent me this ! 
Beachlover
Moderator
Beachlover
Moderator
Andylaser
Administrator
Oldtimer
Explorer
I've given up on Halloween costumes. Every year the local kids used to visit, get their sweets, have their costumes admired. compliment us on ours and go off happily. Covid-19 seemed to have killed the tradition, no one came and we stopped dressing up. Then last year some kids did turn up and I answered the door as my usual self. They all ran away screaming.
